ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,280, issued on April 1, was assigned to PANTECH Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method of transmitting and receiving ACK/NACK signal and apparatus thereof" was invented by Dong Hyun Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for transmitting an ACK/NACK signal for an HARQ (Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest) in a CA (Carrier Aggregation) system, the method including obtaining at least one transmission resource among first and second transmission resources; configuring a first table showing a relationship in which a combination of at least one of the first and second transmission resources and modulation s...