US Patent Issued to ZTE on Jan. 27 for "Multicast and broadcast service continuity during mobility" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,186, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Multicast and broadcast service continuity during mobility" was invented by Shuang Liang (Shenzhen, China) and Zhendong Li (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, and systems for providing multicast handover are disclosed. In one example aspect, the method includes receiving, by a target radio access node (T-RAN) from a source radio access node (S-RAN) or from an access and mobility management function (AMF), a handover request including a multicast or broadcast context for a handover of a multicast and broadcast service (MBS) to the T-R...