ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,085, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to MediaTek Singapore Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Methods for selectively enabling and disabling UL HARQ retransmission in NTN communications and communication apparatus utilizing the same" was invented by Mehmet Kunt (Cambridge, Great Britain), Abhishek Roy (San Jose, Calif.) and Pradeep Jose (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for selectively enabling and disabling UL HARQ retransmission in NTN communications and communication apparatus utilizing the same. A method for selectively enabling and disabling uplink Hybrid Automatic Repeat request (HARQ) retransmission in Non-...