ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,706, issued on April 15, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Transport block grouping for higher bands" was invented by Ran Berliner (Kfar-Aviv, Israel), Shay Landis (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Yehonatan Dallal (Kfar Saba, Israel) and Idan Michael Horn (Hod Hasharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects presented herein may enable a UE to provide HARQ feedback for multiple groups of CBs based on their associated CBG and TBG. In one aspect, a UE receives an RRC configuration for a HARQ transmission, the RRC configuration including a CBG configuration and a TBG configuration. The UE determines, based on the CBG configuratio...