ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,742, issued on April 29, was assigned to Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for hybrid automatic retransmission request" was invented by Congchi Zhang (Shanghai), Haipeng Lei (Beijing), Mingzeng Dai (Shanghai), Lianhai Wu (Beijing), Joachim Lohr (Wiesbaden, Germany) and Hyung-Nam Choi (Ottobrunn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for hybrid automatic retransmission request (HARQ) is provided. The method is performed by a first UE. The method includes receiving, from a NodeB, an acknowledge configuration indicating an HARQ scheme of the first UE and uplink resource for the HARQ scheme; de...