ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,457, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Signaling for multicast broadcast services" was invented by Xueying Diao (Shenzhen, China), Lin Chen (Shenzhen, China) and Tao Qi (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems and apparatus for implementing multicast broadcast services in a wireless network are described. One example method includes communicating a message on an interface between a control plane (CP) function of a network node and a user plane (UP) function of the network node that provides data connectivity to one or more wireless devices in a wireless network, and configuring, ba...