ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,713,476, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for multicast and broadcast services" was invented by Mingzeng Dai (Shanghai), Haiming Wang (Beijing) and Lianhai Wu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present application relate to a method and apparatus for multicast and broadcast services (MBS). An exemplary method includes: transmitting a bearer context identity (ID) to identify a tunnel for a radio bearer (RB) and associate the tunnel with at least one of: a multicast data radio bearer (M-DRB); and at least one unicast data radio bearers (U-DRB). Embodiments of ...