ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,198, issued on June 30, was assigned to KT Corp. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"MBS data processing method and device" was invented by Sung-pyo Hong (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a method and device for processing multicast and broadcast services (MBS) data. The method includes switching a radio resource control (RRC) state to an RRC inactive state, receiving a message for MBS session state notification from a base station, and initiating an RRC connection resume procedure for an RRC state change based on the message"

The patent was filed on Oct. 19, 2021, under Application No. 18/029,998.

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