ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,641, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).
"End-to-end hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) for relay communications with user equipment (UE) cooperation" was invented by Hua Xu (Ottawa) and Jianglei Ma (Ottawa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An end-to-end HARQ process is associated with a data transmission from a first end node to a second end node along a UE relay path. The UE relay path includes multiple links between nodes along the entire UE relay path between the first end node and the second end node. The end-to-end HARQ process is a single HARQ process that is denoted by a single H...