ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,882, issued on May 5, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Tunnel reuse for multicast and broadcast service" was invented by Zijiang Ma (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, and systems for enabling effective reuse of a multicast or shared tunnel for a multicast and broadcast service are described. In one example aspect, a wireless communication method includes receiving, by a network node in a core network, information from a first access node requesting a multicast tunnel associated with a multicast and broadcast service, and transmitting, by the network node to the first access node, informatio...