ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,458, issued on May 27, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Hybrid automatic repeat request processing method and communications apparatus" was invented by Haibo Xu (Beijing), Jun Wang (Shanghai), Dongdong Wei (Shanghai) and Jian Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application provide a method and a communications apparatus for hybrid automatic repeat request processing, and relate to the field of communications technologies, to help reduce the possibility that an exception occurs due to the introduction of a HARQ feedback mechanism in sidelink communication. The method includ...