ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,776, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus of multicast and broadcast service, electronic device, and storage medium" was invented by Zhuoyun Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method includes: receiving a multicast and broadcast service (MBS) rule issued by a policy control functional entity, the MBS rule being generated by the policy control functional entity based on a service request message transmitted by an application functional entity, and the service request message including information of an MBS service regi...