US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on March 11 for "Flexible scheduling for multicast wireless communication" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,691, issued on March 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Flexible scheduling for multicast wireless communication" was invented by Alberto Rico Alvarino (San Diego), Le Liu (Fremont, Calif.), Kazuki Takeda (Tokyo) and Ayan Sengupta (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station multicasts a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission and transmits downlink control associated with the PDSCH, wherein the downlink control comprises different parameters for uplink transmissions to multiple user equipments (UEs). A UE receives the associated the PDSCH, where the downlink control comprises different paramet...