ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,872, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Apparatus and method for a hybrid automatic repeat request feedback transmission" was invented by Huei-Ming Lin (South Yarra, Australia) and Zhenshan Zhao (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and a method for a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback transmission are provided. A method for a HARQ feedback transmission includes receiving a multicast broadcast service (MBS) transport block (TB) from a base station, decoding the MBS TB, and transmitting, to the base station, a HARQ feedback in a...