ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,008, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Group notification and confirmation for multicast broadcast services" was invented by Alireza Babaei (Fairfax, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of multicast broadcast services (MBS) notification signaling includes receiving, by a user equipment (UE), a downlink control information (DCI). The DCI is associated with a first radio network temporary identifier (RNTI) corresponding at least to MBS-related notifications and includes a field with a plurality of bits. One or more bits of the plurality of bits of the field indicate an update or a change t...