ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,496, issued on June 23, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"Terminal apparatus, base station apparatus, and method" was invented by Takako Hori (Sakai City, Japan), Shohei Yamada (Sakai City, Japan) and Hidekazu Tsuboi (Sakai City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a terminal apparatus configured to release, based on receiving, via a DCCH from the base station apparatus, an RRC message including a part of session information of an MBS session, an MBS radio bearer used to receive the MBS session."

The patent was filed on Aug. 2, 2021, under Application No. 18/019,243.

*For further information, including i...