US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Nov. 3 for "Hybrid multicast and broadcast" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,039, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Hybrid multicast and broadcast" was invented by Prasad Reddy Kadiri (San Diego), Alberto Rico Alvarino (San Diego), Miguel Griot (La Jolla, Calif.), Xipeng Zhu (San Diego), Haris Zisimopoulos (London) and Umesh Phuyal (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a configuration associated with a service, the configuration indicating a first set of one or more parameters for accessing the service in a multicast mode using non-access strat...