ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,743, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"HARQ process for sidelink transmission" was invented by Joachim Loehr (Wiesbaden, Germany), Prateek Basu Mallick (Dreieich, Germany), Karthikeyan Ganesan (Kronberg im Taunus, Germany) and Ravi Kuchibhotla (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for sidelink HARQ operation. One apparatus includes a memory coupled to a processor, where the processor is configured to cause the second apparatus to receive a SL grant for a SL transmission using SL resources, the SL grant indicating a first HARQ process identif...