ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,014, issued on June 30, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Service producer health-check" was invented by Maria Cruz Bartolome Rodrigo (Torremocha de Jarama Madrid, Spain) and Magnus Hallenstal (Taby, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for a service consumer entity to check the health status of a service producer entity, including determining the execution or connectivity health status of the service producer entity and transmitting to a service discovery entity the health status of the service producer entity. The health status can be determined using a health-check service exposed by th...