ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,885, issued on June 3, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus for multicast broadcast service, storage 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 and apparatus for a multicast broadcast service, a computer-readable storage medium, and an electronic device. The method includes: transmitting a first user plane multicast broadcast service (MBS) session establishment request to a first user plane node corresponding to an ith level control plane node, and receiving a first user plane MBS sess...