ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,104, issued on March 4, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Guangdong, China).

"Multicast service transmission method and device" was invented by Yuanping Zhu (Shanghai), Yada Huang (Shanghai) and Jun Wang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multicast service transmission method includes: a management device that receives a first message; the management device based on the first message, instructs a gateway device to send a data packet of the first multicast service to the terminal device or the access network device, or the management device instructs a gateway device to stop sending a data packet of the first mult...