ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,244, issued on March 24, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Beam diversity for multicast and broadcast systems" was invented by Hua Chao (Shanghai), Yonggang Wang (Shanghai) and Naizheng Zheng (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are example embodiments of methods, apparatuses and systems supporting beam diversity for multimedia broadcast multicast services. A method may comprise receiving information of one or more beams and abeam-specific repetition pattern for at least one of the one or more beams for transmission of a service from a network device, and receiving the service on the at least one ...