ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,836, issued on June 2, was assigned to Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd. (Beijing).

"Methods and apparatuses for handling a MBS at a RAN node" was invented by Congchi Zhang (Shanghai), Mingzeng Dai (Shanghai), Lianhai Wu (Beijing), Le Yan (Shanghai), Hyung-Nam Choi (Ottobrunn, Germany), Prateek Basu Mallick (Dreieich, Germany) and Joachim Lohr (Wiesbaden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present application relate to methods and apparatuses for handling a service belonging to a multicast broadcast service (MBS) at a radio access network (RAN) node under a 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) 5G system or the like. Ac...