ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,012, issued on July 22, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Multicast-broadcast user service architecture" was invented by Thomas Stockhammer (Bergen, Germany), Imed Bouazizi (Frisco, Texas), Charles Nung Lo (San Diego), Miguel Griot (La Jolla, Calif.) and Ralph Akram Gholmieh (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a network entity, a multicast-broadcast user service description message. The UE may communicate, using a multicast-broadcast service (MBS) transport function (MBSTF) cli...