ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,221, issued on July 29, was assigned to PANTECH Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for mapping physical hybrid automatic repeat request indicator channel" was invented by Jung Hoon Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Joon Kui Ahn (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for mapping a physical hybrid automatic repeat request indicator channel (PHICH) is described. The method for mapping a PHICH includes determining an index of a resource element group transmitting a repetitive pattern of the PHICH, according to a ratio of the number of available resource element groups in a symbol in which the PHICH is transmitted and the...