ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,258, issued on May 13, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"System and method for hybrid-ARQ" was invented by Ming Jia (Ottawa) and Jianglei Ma (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for providing H-ARQ transmissions in respect of a set of horizontal code blocks are combined in a code. Retransmissions contain vertical parity check blocks which are determined from verticals from the set of horizontal code blocks. Once all the vertical parity check blocks have been transmitted, a new set may be determined after performing interleaving upon either the content of the horizont...