ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,208, issued on April 8, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"HARQ feedback technique for communication systems" was invented by Nuno Manuel Kiilerich Pratas (Gistrup, Denmark), Jeroen Wigard (Klarup, Denmark), Benny Vejlgaard (Gistrup, Denmark) and Carlos Santiago Morejon Garcia (Aalborg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device receiving a transmission is configured to provide its feedback in a unique resource pattern within a set of resources (a resource pool). The resource pattern used by the device overlaps partially with one or more resource patterns used for feedback transmissions by other devices in ...