ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,741, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to MediaTek Singapore Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Methods and apparatus of HARQ operation for transmission of multicast broadcast service" was invented by Xuelong Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods are provided for Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) operation with a user equipment (UE) combined HARQ process for the multicast broadcast services (MBS). The UE established a UE combined HARQ process to receive HARQ transmissions for the MBS from both the point-to-mjultipoint (PTM) leg and the point-to-point (PTP) leg. The HARQ transmission received from the PTM leg is f...