ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,699, issued on July 15, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"User equipment and base station for on-demand multicast broadcast service system information" was invented by Yuxin Wei (Basingstoke, Great Britain), Vivek Sharma (Basingstoke, Great Britain), Yassin Aden Awad (Basingstoke, Great Britain) and Hideji Wakabayashi (Basingstoke, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment for a mobile telecommunications system, including circuitry configured to communicate with a base station of the mobile telecommunications system, wherein the circuitry is further configured to: detect scheduling information for on-dema...