ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,167, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Managing transmission and reception of multicast and broadcast services" was invented by Chih-Hsiang Wu (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method in a base station for managing communication of multicast and/or broadcast services (MBS) includes causing (1402) establishment of a session for transmitting MBS data packets from a core network (CN) to a user equipment (UE). The method also includes transmitting (1404) configuration parameters associated with the session to the UE. Further, the method includes transmitting (1406) MBS data packets to...