ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,193, issued on June 10, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Feedback enhancement for multicast broadcast services" was invented by Alireza Babaei (Fairfax, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method and apparatus for mobile communications is provided. A user equipment (UE) receives a multicast broadcast services (MBS) transport block, wherein the UE corresponds to a defined state. The defined state can be an RRC inactive or idle state. The UE determines determining to transmit a HARQ feedback for the received MBS transport block. The UE then transmits an indication of the HARQ feedback."

The patent was fil...