US Patent Issued to Ofinno on July 29 for "Discontinuous reception operation of multicast and broadcast services" (Virginia, California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,217, issued on July 29, was assigned to Ofinno LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Discontinuous reception operation of multicast and broadcast services" was invented by Hua Zhou (Vienna, Va.), Esmael Dinan Hejazi (McLean, Va.), Yunjung Yi (Vienna, Va.), Ali Cirik Cagatay (Chantilly, Va.), Hyukjin Chae (San Diego), Hyoungsuk Jeon (Centreville, Va.), Jonghyun Park (Syosset, N.Y.) and Kai Xu (Great Falls, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless device receives parameters indicating: a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) round trip time (RTT) timer of a multicast and broadcast service (MBS), and a feedback indicator indicating whether HARQ fee...