ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,722, issued on May 19, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Resiliency against NRF failure in a 5G network" was invented by Virendra Singh (Bengaluru, India), Jeffrey Alan Craig (Hillsborough, N.C.), Jay Rajput (Bengaluru, India), Ankit Srivastava (Bengaluru, India) and Amarnath Jayaramachar (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology disclosed herein enables resiliency of routing between NFs when degraded 5G NF topology information is provided to an SCP by an NRF. In a particular example, a method includes transmitting requests for NRF status from a Service Communications Proxy (SCP)...