ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,204, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Multicast downlink service notification method, terminal device and network device" was invented by Jianhua Liu (Dongguan, China) and Shukun Wang (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multicast downlink service notification method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, a paging message, wherein the paging message is used for notifying presence of multicast downlink data; and responding, by the terminal device, to the paging message."

The patent was filed on Nov. 10, 2022, under Application No. 17/984,830. ...