ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,765, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Restoration of multicast/broadcast service upon multicast/broadcast user plane function failure without restart" was invented by Bruno Landais (Pleumeur-Bodou, France), Horst Thomas Belling (Erding, Germany), Philippe Godin (Versailles, France) and David Navratil (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for restoration of multicast/broadcast service upon multicast/broadcast user plane function failure without restart are provided. For example, a method may include detecting non-functionality of...