ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,279, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback control for multicast communications" was invented by Le Liu (San Jose, Calif.), Alberto Rico Alvarino (San Diego), Kazuki Takeda (Tokyo), Wanshi Chen (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego), Ayan Sengupta (San Diego), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego) and Peter Gaal (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for wireless communication by a network node includes transmitting, to a group of user equipment (UEs), radio resource control (RRC) signaling to configure a function for enabling and disabling hybrid automatic repeat req...