ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,542, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Multicast-broadcast service tunnel handling" was invented by Philippe Godin (Versailles, France) and David Navratil (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method for a second network node, the method comprising: receiving a message from a first network node configured to provide a multicast-broadcast service, MBS, for a user equipment, UE, the message comprising an MBS identifier identifying the MBS and at least one data flow identifier corresponding to at least one data flow, for providing the MBS, to be offloaded from the ...