ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,021, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Method and apparatus for handling multicast broadcast service" was invented by Jie Ling (Shanghai), Hans Bertil Ronneke (Kungsbacka, Sweden), Shabnam Sultana (Montreal) and Juying Gan (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for multicast broadcast service. The method implemented at an access and mobility management function (AMF) entity comprises receiving a message for starting a multicast/broadcast (MB) session from a session management function (SMF) entity. The message comprises first location information. The method...