ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,044, issued on June 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Hybrid automatic repeat request feedback in network" was invented by Bharat Shrestha (San Diego), Xiao Feng Wang (San Diego), Alberto Rico Alvarino (San Diego), Umesh Phuyal (San Diego), Peter Gaal (San Diego), Liangping Ma (San Diego), Ayan Sengupta (San Diego), Prasad Reddy Kadiri (San Diego) and Dan Zhang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a communication between a user equipment (UE) and a network node, the UE may receive a grant of uplink (UL) shared channel (SCH) resources from the network node. Each of the UL SCH resources may be associated with one ...