ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,746, issued on June 10, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus for multicast broadcast service, medium, and electronic device" was invented by Chunshan Xiong (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method includes: selecting an ith level user plane node corresponding to an ith level control plane node, i=1.., N, N being a positive integer; transmitting a user plane MBS session establishment request to an ith level user plane node, and receiving a user plane MBS session establishment response fed back by the ith level user plane node; and transmitting ...