ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,210, issued on July 1, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for switching between unicast and multicast in a wireless communication system" was invented by Daewook Byun (Seoul, South Korea), Sunghoon Jung (Seoul, South Korea), Jian Xu (Seoul, South Korea) and Seokjung Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for switching between unicast and multicast in a wireless communication system is provided. A DU of a RAN node provides the MBS by using a first transmission to the wireless device. A DU of a RAN node receives, from the wireless device, feedback inform...