ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,936, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Transmission mode conversion indication method, access network device, and terminal device" was invented by Zhenhua Xie (Dongguan, China) and Yanxia Zhang (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmission mode conversion indication method includes: sending a first message to a core network or sending a second message to a terminal device, so as to indicate that a transmission mode conversion is required, where the first message carries first user information and first multicast group information."

The patent was filed on Sep...