ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,251, issued on March 25, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Apparatus and methods for maintaining broadcast service wireless communications" was invented by Prasad Reddy Kadiri (San Diego), Xipeng Zhu (San Diego), Umesh Phuyal (San Diego), Le Liu (San Jose, Calif.), Kazuki Takeda (Tokyo), Alberto Rico Alvarino (San Diego), Miguel Griot (La Jolla, Calif.) and Haris Zisimopoulos (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects described herein relate to communicating with one or more cells for receiving a broadcast service, and providing broadcast service continuity in device mobility scenarios. In some aspects, a user equipmen...