ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,605, issued on Jan. 13.

"Multicast broadcast service simultaneous transmission using downlink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)" was invented by Xuanbo Shao (Beijing) and Xuelong Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods are provided for multiple non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) layer each independently encoded with different configuration parameters, including MCS and NOMA spreading sequences. In one embodiment, the UE obtains NOMA configuration parameters for the DL data packets, decodes and reconnects multiple PDUs from the NOMA configuration parameters, and delivers decoded PDUs to upper layers o...