US Patent Issued to Apple on May 27 for "Apparatus and method for determining the content of a retransmission" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,448, issued on May 27, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Apparatus and method for determining the content of a retransmission" was invented by Janik Frenzel (Munich) and Stefan H. Mueller-Weinfurtner (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for reducing overhead during hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) operations performed by a user equipment (UE) during wireless communication. The UE receives a message over the wireless network and obtains a parity check matrix (PCM) associated with a received message. Rows of the PCM are assigned to respective groups of a plurality of groups, where the res...