US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on Jan. 20 for "Method and apparatus for multicast and broadcast service in a wireless communication system" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,242, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for multicast and broadcast service in a wireless communication system" was invented by Daewook Byun (Seoul, South Korea), Jian Xu (Seoul, South Korea) and Seokjung Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for multicast and broadcast service in a wireless communication system is provided. A CU-UP of a RAN node receives, from a CU-CP of the RAN node, a first message to join a multicast group for a MB service. A CU-UP of a RAN node performs the MLD and/or IGMP Join procedure for the MB service ind...