ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,053, issued on July 28, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to dynamic use of multicast radio resources" was invented by Yvon Legallais (Rennes, France), Franck Aumont (Vern sur Seiche, France), Remi Houdaille (Cesson Sevigne, France) and Jean Le Roux (Rennes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatuses, systems, etc., directed to a dynamic use of multicast radio resources are disclosed herein. In an embodiment, a method, implemented by a WTRU, for receiving multicast and broadcast service, MBS, from a RAN node, comprises: receiving MBS servic...