ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,167, issued on April 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"MIRS re-transmission optimization for groupcast utilizing network coding" was invented by Gideon Shlomo Kutz (Ramat Hasharon, Israel), Amit Bar-Or Tillinger (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Tal Oved (Modiin, Israel) and Assaf Touboul (Netanya, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station may transmit a set of code blocks to multiple user equipments (UEs). The base station may receive feedback pertaining to reception of each of the set of code blocks at each of the multiple UEs. The base station may g...