ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,741, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Chang'an Dongguan, China).

"Method and apparatus for multicast service session operation and communications device" was invented by Zhenhua Xie (Chang'an Dongguan, China) and Xiaowan Ke (Chang'an Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and an apparatus for multicast service session operation and a communications device, where the method for multicast service session operation includes: receiving from a terminal a request including multicast service information; and sending a first invocation paramet...