ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,486, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Telecommunications system to timely send producer network function status notifications to consumer network functions" was invented by John Paul Cruz (Renton, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A 5G telecommunications network system for sending timely status notifications regarding network functions. The system includes at least two network repository functions (NRF), a consumer network function (CNF), and a producer network function (PNF). The CNF creates a subscription with the first NRF to receive updates about the PNF. The first NRF, upon detecting l...