ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,042, issued on June 16, was assigned to MediaTek Singapore Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Methods and apparatus to set MRB configuration for UE to receive MBS multicast in RRC inactive state" was invented by Xiaonan Zhang (Beijing), Yuanyuan Zhang (Beijing) and Xuelong Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods are provided for the UE to receive multicast transmission in RRC INACTIVE state. In one embodiment, the UE joins a multicast session, receives a MRB configuration for a multicast service, establishes an MRB for reception of the multicast service in the RRC INACTIVE state, and receives data transmission of the ...