ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,786, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to AIRBUS DS SLC (Elancourt, France).

"Method for initiating MCData communication within a regroup of communication groups in a 3GPP MCS network" was invented by Olivier Paterour (Elancourt, France) and Francois Piroard (Elancourt, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for initiating an MCData communication within a regroup of communication groups, the method being implemented by a network according to the 3GPP MCS standard, wherein an MCData communication may include short data messages or file distribution. In addition, some information is added in the different transmissions to allow...