US Patent Issued to Lenovo (Beijing) on Nov. 11 for "Methods and apparatuses for multicast and broadcast services" (Chinese, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,897, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd. (Beijing).

"Methods and apparatuses for multicast and broadcast services" was invented by Mingzeng Dai (Shanghai), Congchi Zhang (Shanghai), Joachim Lohr (Wiesbaden, Germany), Hyung-Nam Choi (Ottobrunn, Germany), Prateek Basu Mallick (Dreieich, Germany), Lianhai Wu (Beijing) and Le Yan (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatuses for multicast and broadcast services (MBS). According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method may include: determining whether a user equipment (UE) in an RRC_IDLE st...