ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,446, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"HARQ transmission using timers for configured grants and discontinuous reception" was invented by Youngdae Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Giwon Park (Seoul, South Korea), Seungmin Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Jongyoul Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) transmission using timers for configured grants and discontinuous reception (DRX) is provided. A first wireless device operating in a wireless communication system receives, from a second wireless device, a sidelink HARQ feedb...