ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,248, issued on June 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Feedback for multicast and broadcast messages" was invented by Mostafa Khoshnevisan (San Diego), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego), Jing Sun (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego), Le Liu (San Jose, Calif.), Kazuki Takeda (Minato-ku, Japan), Alberto Rico Alvarino (San Diego), Wanshi Chen (San Diego), Xipeng Zhu (San Diego) and Peter Gaal (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to methods, devices, and systems for wireless communications. In some wireless communications systems, a base station may transmit a multicast message to a group of user equipment (UEs...