ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,596, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to AMDOCS DEVELOPMENT Ltd. (Limassol, Cyprus).

"System, method, and computer program for leveraging network state information when exposing core network capabilities" was invented by Andrew D'Souza (Silver Spring, Md.), Joe Hogan (Malahide, Ireland) and Cameron Ross Dunne (Newbridge, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "As described herein, a system, method, and computer program are provided for leveraging network state information when exposing network capabilities. A request for one or more capabilities of a network is received from an application by a platform that interfaces the network. The...