ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,037, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus for adding terminal device to a multicast service session" was invented by Haisen Zhang (Beijing), Bin Xu (Beijing), Bingzhao Li (Beijing) and Lei Chen (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method includes: obtaining first information from a first core network device, where the first information is used to request to add a first terminal device to a multicast service session corresponding to a first multicast service; and adding the first terminal device to a multicast service session correspond...