ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,098, issued on May 20, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Feedback for wireless communications" was invented by Yunjung Yi (Vienna, Va.), Esmael Dinan (McLean, Va.), Hyukjin Chae (Reston, Va.), Ali Cirik (Herndon, Va.), Hua Zhou (Herndon, Va.) and Kai Xu (Herndon, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Wireless devices may communicate with each other, for example, via sidelink communication. A wireless device may receive downlink messages from a base station, and the wireless device may receive sidelink messages from another wireless device. Acknowledgment messages to the base station may be prioritized, ba...