ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,092, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement codebook for downlink control information without downlink assignment" was invented by Ahmed Abdelaziz Ibrahim Abdelaziz Zewail (San Diego), Yan Zhou (San Diego) and Jing Sun (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, from a network node, downlink control information (DCI) not associated with a downlink assignment. The UE may transmit, to the network node, an acknowledgement (ACK) or n...