ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,185, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods of delivery mode switch for multicast and broadcast service in a 5G network" was invented by Hongkun Li (Malvern, Pa.), Michael Starsinic (Newtown, Pa.), Pascal Adjakple (Great Neck, N.Y.), Quang Ly (North Wales, Pa.), Jiwan Ninglekhu (Royersford, Pa.) and Catalina Mladin (Hatboro, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An overall architecture to integrate multicast and broadcast service into a general 5G core network. The architecture may provide methods and systems to switch the delivery mode of transmitting messages to User Equipment...