ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,195, issued on May 13, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for determining to switch 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 determining to switch between unicast and multicast in a wireless communication system is provided. A CU of a RAN node provides, via the DU, the MBS by using a first transmission to the wireless device. A CU of a RAN node receives, fro...