ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,614, issued on March 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Uplink broadcast/multicast packet processing" was invented by Vinay Joseph (Calicut, India), Rajat Prakash (San Diego), Peerapol Tinnakornsrisuphap (San Diego) and Fatih Ulupinar (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, devices, and systems for processing uplink broadcast or multicast ("broadcast/multicast") packets from a user equipment (UE) and distributing the broadcast/multicast packets to other UEs in a network. In some aspects, a UE may receive, from a base station, a downlink packet comprising broadcast or multicast (broadcast/multicast) Ethernet d...