ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,868, issued on July 15, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"User equipment for managing feedback and method thereof" was invented by Caroline Quanyi Liang (London) and Robert Arnott (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication system is disclosed in which a user equipment (UE) receives downlink control information (DCI) in accordance with at least one of a first DCI format and a second DCI format, the DCI indicating at least one communication resource to be used for transmitting Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request Acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) feedback for downlink data at a symbol or sub-slot level, and the DCI format used indica...