ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,885, issued on July 15, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Acknowledgement (ACK) and negative acknowledgement (NACK) reporting for a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) grant" was invented by Jing Sun (San Diego), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego) and Juan Montojo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses for using acknowledgement or negative acknowledgement (ACK-NACK) bundling when reporting from a user equipment (UE) a bundled ACK-NACK for a plurality of physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs) associated with a PDSCH grant. A counter downlink as...