ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,869, issued on July 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Technologies for constructing hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgment codebook" was invented by Chunhai Yao (Beijing), Chunxuan Ye (San Diego), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Hong He (San Jose, Calif.), Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego), Sigen Ye (Whitehouse Station, N.J.), Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.), Weidong Yang (San Diego) and Yushu Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for constructing a hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledge character (HARQ-ACK) codebook, performed at a user equipment (U...