ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,869, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Burst transmission of data packets with feedback" was invented by Zexian Li (Espoo, Finland), Ling Yu (Kauniainen, Finland) and Vinh Van Phan (Oulu, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various example embodiments provide efficient burst transmission of duplicated data packets. A data burst comprising multiple data packets may be configured to be transmitted on a first transmission leg. The data burst may be further configured to be transmitted on a second transmission leg with a different order of data packets. A reception status of the data packets may...