ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,611, issued on June 24, was assigned to Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for transmission of transport blocks" was invented by Zhi Yan (Beijing), Haipeng Lei (Beijing), Hongmei Liu (Beijing) and Haiming Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and apparatus for data transmission are disclosed. One method includes determining a redundancy version (RV) index for a first number of transport blocks (TBs), the RV index applied to at least one of the first number of TBs lasts for a third number of a first type of consecutive subframes; determining a scrambling sequence, the scrambling sequence applied to at...