ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,561, issued on July 28, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Method and apparatus for multicast communication" was invented by Rui Fan (Beijing), Stefan Parkvall (Bromma, Sweden) and Zhi Ge (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for multicast communication. The method which may be performed by a terminal device comprises receiving an uplink resource indicator for a multicast traffic of the terminal device from a network node. The uplink resource indicator may be used to indicate different uplink resources for multicast feedback of differen...