ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,423, issued on July 14, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Communication control method" was invented by Masato Fujishiro (Yokohama, Japan) and Henry Chang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication control method is used in a mobile communication system for providing a multicast broadcast service (MBS) from a base station to user equipment, and includes receiving, by the base station from a core network or another base station, a specific Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) sequence number specified to be applied to an MBS packet; associating, by the base station, the MBS packet with the specific PDCP ...