ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,378, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"System and method for multicast /broadcast service data synchronization" was invented by Hao Zhu (Shenzhen, China), Tao Qi (Shenzhen, China), Feng Xie (Shenzhen, China), Kun Cao (Shenzhen, China) and Zijiang Ma (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for multicast/broadcast service data synchronization. In some embodiments, the method includes transmitting, by a first network node, synchronization information to a second network node. In some embodiments, the synchronization information indicating a plurality of information elements conf...