ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,900, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods for transmission time interval bundling in the uplink" was invented by Guodong Zhang (Woodbury, N.Y.), Jin Wang (Princeton, N.J.), Kyle Jung-Lin Pan (Saint James, N.Y.), Jean-Louis Gauvreau (La Prairie, Canada) and Stephen E. Terry (Northport, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus for supporting uplink Transmission Time Interval (TTI) bundling in Long Term Evolution (LTE) are provided. Methods, systems, and apparatus for signaling, activation/deactivation, and wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) beh...