ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,763, issued on June 16, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Methods and apparatuses for radio communication" was invented by David Navratil (Helsinki) and Prajwal Keshavamurthy (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method comprising monitoring (100; 300; 400) at least one multicast control channel (MCCH1) based on at least one selection information (sel) characterizing a selection of at least one multicast control channel configuration (conf1) associated with the at least one multicast control SNET channel (MCCH1)."

The patent was filed on Aug. 6, 2020, under Application No. 18/007,303.

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