ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,608, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Nokia Technologies (Espoo, Finland).

"Reliable SPS configuration for MBS" was invented by Ugur Baran Elmali (Munich), Volker Pauli (Munich), Esa Mikael Malkamaki (Espoo, Finland), Benoist Pierre Sebire (Tokyo) and David Navratil (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to reliable SPS configuration for MBS. In the solution, a first device starts a first timer upon receiving, from a second device, configuration of a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) for a multicast and broadcast service (MBS). Then if the first timer expires and there is no infor...