ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,763, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods and apparatus for HARQ in wireless networks" was invented by Xiaofei Wang (Cedar Grove, N.J.), Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego), Hanqing Lou (Syosset, N.Y.), Li Hsiang Sun (San Diego), Joseph Levy (Merrick, N.Y.), Alphan Sahin (Westbury, N.Y.) and Frank LaSita (Setauket, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses are described herein for HARQ signaling and communications in wireless networks. For example, a method implemented in a STA comprises receiving a first MU transmission including a first set of HARQ bits, a first ...