ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,343, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Multicast traffic scheduling across multiple radio access technologies" was invented by Syam Krishna Babbellapati (Chennai, India), Sitaramanjaneyulu Kanamarlapudi (San Diego) and Prasad Reddy Kadiri (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide for multicast communications that originate at a wide area network (WAN) using a first RAT to be provided to a local area network (LAN) that uses a second RAT that is used to complete the multicast communications to a user equipment (UE). A sched...