ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,627, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Method for fast scheduling of retransmission" was invented by Rapeepat Ratasuk (Iverness, Ill.), Srinivasan Selvaganapathy (Bangalore, India), Muhammad Majid Butt (Palaiseau, France), Nitin Mangalvedhe (Naperville, Ill.) and David Bhatoolaul (Swindon Wiltshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A UE may be enabled to provide low latency, high reliability, and power savings. If a message of the UE is delay-sensitive, the UE may indicate to a gNB that fast retransmission scheduling may be necessary if a packet is not received over PUSCH. After tra...