US Patent Issued to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES on Sept. 23 for "Method for efficient HARQ feedback using two levels of PUCCH reporting for multicast/broadcast users in NR" (German, British, Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,050, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Method for efficient HARQ feedback using two levels of PUCCH reporting for multicast/broadcast users in NR" was invented by David Bhatoolaul (Wiltshire, Great Britain), Volker Pauli (Ansbach, Germany), Fasil Berhanu Tesema (Munich) and David Navratil (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques of transmitting and receiving HARQ feedback for point to multipoint data packets include using two different PUCCHs for providing ACK/NACK feedback to a sequence of point-to-multipoint (PTM) data packets. For example, when a gNB sends PTM data packets (e....