ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,220, issued on July 29, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Radio (NR) multicast broadcast service (MBS)" was invented by Chunhai Yao (Beijing), Chunxuan Ye (San Diego), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Fangli Xu (Beijing), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Hong He (San Jose, Calif.), Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego), Sigen Ye (San Diego), Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.), Weidong Yang (San Diego) and Yushu Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) is configured to receive physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) configuration information associated with PUCCH resource allocation for negative acknowledgemen...