ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,236,347, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Machine-learning architectures for broadcast and multicast communications" was invented by Jibing Wang (San Jose, Calif.) and Erik Stauffer (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and apparatuses are described for machine-learning architectures for broadcast and multicast communications. A network entity processes broadcast or multicast communications using a deep neural network (DNN) to direct the one or more broadcast or multicast communications to a targeted group of user equipments (UEs) using the wireless communication system. The n...