ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,956, issued on March 24, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Methods, systems, and computer readable media for using network function (NF) repository function (NRF) to provide mapping of single network slice selection assistance information (S-NSSAI) for roaming and inter-public land mobile network (inter-PLMN) traffic" was invented by Amarnath Jayaramachar (Bangalore, India), Yesh Goel (Bangalore, India) and Doki Satish Kumar Patro (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for using a network function (NF) repository function (NRF) for mapping single network slice selection assistan...