ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,626, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Multicast transmission method and related apparatus" was invented by Bin Xu (Beijing), Bingzhao Li (Beijing) and Haifeng Yu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discloses a multicast transmission method. The multicast transmission method includes: a first network device receives a first data packet and first indication information, where the first indication information indicates a sequence of the first data packet in at least one data packet; the first network device sets a sequence number of a first protocol layer of the fir...