ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,208, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Retransmission and selection of HARQ and MCS based on partial sensing" was invented by Jung Ho Ryu (Fort Lee, N.J.), Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.), Gabi Sarkis (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.), Hua Wang (Basking Ridge, N.J.) and Jelena Damnjanovic (Del Mar, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus, and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for retransmission and selection of HARQ and MCS based on partial sensing. A UE may perform a partial sensing procedure t...