ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,702, issued on March 25, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Timer control method, apparatus, and system" was invented by Jun Li (Shanghai), Zhihu Luo (Beijing), Hong Wang (Beijing) and Baokun Shan (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application relates to the field of wireless communication technologies, and in particular, to a time control, an apparatus, and a system. This application provides a timer control method, including: When downlink control information indicates data transmission of N hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) processes and a terminal device is configured with the...