ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,440, issued on May 13, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Transmission, retransmission, and hybrid automatic repeat request process using preconfigured uplink resources in idle mode" was invented by Bharat Shrestha (Cupertino, Calif.), Seau S. Lim (Cupertino, Calif.) and Marta Martinez Tarradell (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of this disclosure include apparatuses and methods for facilitating a transmission, retransmission, and hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process using preconfigured uplink resources (PUR) in IDLE mode. In some embodiments, user equipment (UE) may establish ...