ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,311, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Configuring resources for multicast and/or broadcast services in a distributed base station architecture" was invented by Chih-Hsiang Wu (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed unit (DU) of a distributed base station including a central unit (CU) and the DU can implement a method for configuring a user equipment (UE) to receive multicast and/or broadcast services (MBS). The method may include: receiving (1002), from the CU, a CU-to-DU message identifying an MBS session and requesting that the DU configure resources for the MBS sess...