ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,232, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Criteria-based retransmission grants for pending media access control protocol data units" was invented by Ping-Heng Kuo (London) and Matha Deghel (Montrouge, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates generally to the field of wireless communications and, in particular, to techniques for issuing criteria-based retransmission grants for pending Media Access Control (MAC) Protocol Data Units (PDUs) generated and buffered in a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication network. In particular, the UE is configured with at leas...