ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,049, issued on April 22, was assigned to Neo Wireless LLC (Wayne, Pa.).

"Methods and apparatus for power efficient broadcasting and communication systems" was invented by Haiming Huang (Bellevue, Wash.), Xiaodong Li (Kirkland, Wash.), Titus Lo (Bellevue, Wash.) and Kemin Li (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for receiving broadcast information in an OFDM communication system may comprise receiving, by a mobile station, a periodically broadcast scheduling message from a base station. The periodically broadcast scheduling message may be an OFDM signal which indicates for each type of a plurality of types of broadca...