ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,163, issued on May 12, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Systems and methods for managing multicast and unicast communications" was invented by Xing Liu (Shenzhen, China), Peng Hao (Shenzhen, China), Tao Qi (Shenzhen, China), Jing Shi (Shenzhen, China), Xingguang Wei (Shenzhen, China) and Lin Chen (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless communication method includes receiving, by a wireless communication device from a network, first downlink control information on a first downlink channel in a first frequency resource. The first downlink control information schedules a first Transport Block (TB). The fir...