ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,657, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Configuration based hybrid automatic repeat request trigger" was invented by Konstantinos Dimou (New York City, N.Y.), Ahmed Elshafie (San Diego), Wei Yang (San Diego), Yan Zhou (San Diego) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive signaling indicating one or more selected priorities, of at least two priorities, to which a trigger for hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback applies. The UE may receive downlink cont...