US Patent Issued to Nokia Technologies on Sept. 16 for "CU-DU communication for multicast with support for switching between unicast and multicast" (Finnish, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,838, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"CU-DU communication for multicast with support for switching between unicast and multicast" was invented by Philippe Godin (Versailles, France) and David Navratil (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an aspect, there is provided a distributed unit for a distributed access node. The distributed unit maintains, in a memory, information on a configuration of a first radio link control leg for a unicast data radio bearer or a single cell multicast radio bearer for point-to-point transmissions and a configuration of a second radio link cont...