US Patent Issued to InterDigital Patent Holdings on April 22 for "Method and apparatus for efficiently utilizing HARQ processes for semi-persistent and dynamic data transmissions" (New York, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,044, issued on April 22, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Method and apparatus for efficiently utilizing HARQ processes for semi-persistent and dynamic data transmissions" was invented by Jin Wang (Princeton, N.J.) and Guodong Zhang (Woodbury, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus are disclosed for efficient hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process utilization for semi-persistent and dynamic data transmissions, wherein a reserved HARQ process identification (ID) can be reused. A subset of a plurality of HARQ process IDs is reserved to use for a semi-persistent allocation...