ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,759, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Broadcast service restoration for multicast/broadcast service upon radio access node failure or 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 broadcast service restoration for multicast/broadcast service upon radio access node failure or restart are provided. For example, a method may include storing a last multicast/broadcast service ses...