ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,631, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Ofinno LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Multicast broadcast service control" was invented by SungDuck Chun (Fairfax, Va.), Kyungmin Park (Vienna, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Jian Xu (McLean, Va.), Peyman Talebi Fard (Vienna, Va.), Weihua Qiao (Herndon, Va.) and Stanislav Filin (Chantilly, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method can include receiving, by a wireless device from a first base station, a radio resource control (RRC) release message indicating transition of the wireless device from an RRC connected state to an RRC inactive state or an RRC idle state. The method can also include p...