ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,009, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Data transmission method and apparatus, base station, and terminal" was invented by Rui Zhou (Beijing), Jing Liang (Beijing), Ye Zhou (Beijing) and Li Chen (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this disclosure provide a data transmission method and apparatus, a base station, and a terminal. The method includes: determining, by a base station, that a terminal needs to receive a multicast broadcast service (MBS) service; and transmitting, by the base station, numbering information of a packet data convergence protocol (P...