ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,366, issued on April 14.

"Multicast service delivery for use in inactive state" was invented by Alireza Babaei (Fairfax, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of multicast data delivery in a radio resource control (RRC) inactive state includes receiving, by a user equipment (UE) in an RRC connected state, an RRC release message indicating transitioning of the UE from the RRC connected state to an RRC inactive state and receiving, while in the RRC inactive state, multicast data in response to joining a multicast group and receiving multicast configuration parameters."

The patent was filed on March 14, 2023, under Application N...