ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,493, issued on March 17, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Downlink size estimation for multicast traffic" was invented by Athul Prasad (Naperville, Ill.), David Bhatoolaul (Swindon, Great Britain), Naizheng Zheng (Beijing), David Navratil (Helsinki), Volker Pauli (Ansbach, Germany), Ugur Baran Elmali (Munich) and Matthew Baker (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relates to estimating downlink size for a multicast traffic. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, a first device receives downlink control information (DCI) for a multicast traf...