ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,757, issued on Feb. 4.
"Hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process sharing across carriers" was invented by Wooseok Nam (San Diego) and Tao Luo (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and apparatus for sharing hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) processes across component carriers (CCs) are described. An example technique involves identifying a carrier aggregation (CA) configuration in which at least a first CC of a plurality of CCs is aggregated with at least a second CC of the plurality of CCs. A HARQ configuration indicating a pool of HARQ processes shared by at least the first CC and the second CC is received f...