ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,999, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for multicast and broadcast services" was invented by Mingzeng Dai (Shanghai), Haiming Wang (Beijing) and Lianhai Wu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present application relate to a method and apparatus for multicast and broadcast services (MBS). An exemplary method includes: transmitting configuration information indicating a multicast data radio bearer (M-DRB) and a dedicated radio bearer (RB) both associated with a radio link control (RLC) entity; transmitting a set of RLC data packets to one or more user equipm...