ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,192, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Method, apparatus and computer program" was invented by Saurabh Khare (Bangalore, India) and Bruno Landais (Pleumeur-Bodou, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an apparatus, said apparatus comprising means for, at a network repository function, NRF, receiving, from a NRF consumer, a registration request comprising first information, determining, based on the first information, a preferred NRF instance for the NRF consumer and at least one backup NRF instance for use by the NRF consumer if the preferred NRF instance is unreachable and ...