ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,792, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Methods, systems, and computer readable media for routing, alternate routing, and load balancing of service-based interface (SBI) request messages to network functions (NFs) located in different regions using service communication proxy (SCP)" was invented by Virendra Singh (Bangalore, India), Shashikiran Bhalachandra Mahalank (Bangalore, India) and Jay Rajput (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for routing, alternate routing, or load balancing of SBI request messages among NFs that are members of the same NF set and loca...