ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,938, issued on June 17, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Devices and methods for indicating a second-link retransmission over a first link" was invented by Zhongfeng Li (Shanghai), Richard Stirling-Gallacher (Munich), Lei Lu (Shanghai) and Jian Luo (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device is configured to communicate over the first link and over at least one second link. The device is further configured to determine, based on at least one communication over the at least one second link, retransmission information (RI), and/or resource request information (RRI), and/or buffer status information ...