ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,643, issued on April 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for maintaining multicast and/or broadcast service wireless communications" was invented by Xipeng Zhu (San Diego), Prasad Reddy Kadiri (San Diego), Umesh Phuyal (San Diego), Miguel Griot (La Jolla, Calif.), Haris Zisimopoulos (London), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego), Alberto Rico Alvarino (San Diego), Le Liu (San Jose, Calif.) and Kazuki Takeda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects described herein relate to communicating with one or more cells for receiving a multicast and/or broadcast service (MBS), and providing MBS continuity in device mobility sce...