ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,268, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Intel Products IP LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Reception of new radio (NR) multicast and broadcast service (MBS) control and data in the downlink" was invented by Avik Sengupta (Santa Clara, Calif.), Debdeep Chatterjee (San Jose, Calif.) and Gang Xiong (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments herein provide techniques related to downlink multicast and broadcast service (MBS) data and control. In embodiments, abase station may identify, based on an active bandwidth part (BWP) of a user equipment (UE), a transmission control indicator (TCI) state list configuration relate...