ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,794, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to PURPLEVINE INNOVATION COMPANY Ltd. (Hong Kong).

"BWP operation for NR multicast and broadcast services" was invented by Chiu-Wen Chen (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A group-common resource allocation method for multicast and broadcast service (MBS) and related devices are provided. The method includes when there is no data ongoing for MBS and unicast on an active BWP, switching from the active BWP to a default BWP upon expiry of a first MBS bwp-Inactivity Timer for MBS or a bwp-Inactivity Timer for unicast; and monitoring group-common resources on the default BWP for MBS r...