ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,637, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and communication apparatus" was invented by Tingyu Xin (Shenzhen, China), Bingzhao Li (Beijing), Yan Wang (Beijing) and Zhenzhen Cao (Boulogne Billancourt, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application provide for a communication method and a related communication apparatus. A second access network device receives a first message from a first access network device, where the first message indicates whether a first state of a multicast broadcast service (MBS) session is activated or deactivated. The sec...