ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,565, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Method and apparatus for configuring network coding and controlling network coding activation" was invented by Pascal Lagrange (La Chapelle des Fougeretz, France), Pierre Visa (Rennes, France), Philippe Le Bars (Thorigne Fouillard, France) and Romain Guignard (Rennes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention concerns a method of wireless communication between a base station and a user equipment, wherein the method comprises: transmitting, by the base station, a data radio bearer configuration; and transmitting packets according to the data radio bearer co...