ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,921, issued on July 21, was assigned to T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Network repository function and producer operations in a standalone network architecture" was invented by Suryaprakash Reddy Voodem (Bothell, Wash.) and Swetha Gopisetti (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology described herein relates to Security Operations Center (SOC) operations in a standalone architecture. In embodiments, the SOC comprises a producer that communicates with a first Network Repository Function (NRF) and a second NRF over a network repository function service-based interface. In embodiments, the producer (...