ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,670, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and device for terminal to join multicast service" was invented by Youngkyo Baek (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sangsoo Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a method and device for a terminal to join a multicast service. A method performed by a session management function (SMF) may comprise the operations of: receiving a join request message for a terminal to join a multicast service; transmitting, to an NF repository function (NRF), a discovery request message including a multicast/broadcast service (...