ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,021, issued on June 30, was assigned to F5 Inc. (Seattle).

"Methods for efficient overload protection in 5G core networks" was invented by Ravi Sankar Mantha (Bangalore, India) and Sandeep Dasgupta (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, non-transitory computer readable media, network traffic management devices and network traffic management systems that provide for efficient overload protection in 5G core networks are illustrated. With this technology, a load at a producer network function (NF) is monitored and in response to determining that the producer NF is overloaded, a plurality of types of network traffic fl...