ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,797, issued on July 15, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media for adjusting coverage of multimedia broadcast multicast service" was invented by Jing He (Beijing) and Benoist Sebire (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods for adjusting cell coverage of a multimedia broadcast multicast service. An example method (700) may include transmitting (701) data of a multimedia broadcast multicast service on a point-to-multipoint channel, monitoring (702) an uplink channel for information on an abnormal reception of the data, and adjusting (703) coverage of...