ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,416, issued on July 14, was assigned to JIO PLATFORMS Ltd. (Ahmedabad, India).

"System and method for offloading devices in a cellular network" was invented by Satish Nanjunda Swamy Jamadagni (Bangalore, India), Mathew Oommen (Mumbai, India) and Pradeep Krishnamurthy Hirisave (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to a system and method for offloading user equipments and as such, unicast and/or broadcast/multicast content of the user equipments from one broadcast/multicast system to another broadcast/multicast system and vice versa based on multiple criteria. The system collects one ...