ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,213,156, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Processing for multicast operation using multiple sets of processing resources" was invented by Kazuki Takeda (Minato-ku, Japan), Alberto Rico Alvarino (San Diego), Le Liu (San Jose, Calif.), Peter Gaal (San Diego), Wanshi Chen (San Diego), Ayan Sengupta (San Diego), Prasad Reddy Kadiri (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego), Mostafa Khoshnevisan (San Diego), Juan Montojo (San Diego), Umesh Phuyal (San Diego) and Wooseok Nam (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, a user equipment (UE) ma...