ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,027, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Multicast payload delivery to idle mode user equipment" was invented by Ali Esswie (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment may be configured by a radio access network node via a multicast configuration with beam pattern information corresponding to downlink beams usable to receive multicast or broadcast content while the user equipment is idle. The user equipment may determine signal strength or error rate metrics. If a determined metric indicates violation of a configured criterion, the user equipment may transmit to the node a prea...