ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,254, issued on June 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"HARQ sequences in wireless networks" was invented by Jialing Li Chen (San Diego), Stephen Jay Shellhammer (Ramona, Calif.), Alfred Asterjadhi (San Diego), Dung Ngoc Doan (San Diego), Bin Tian (San Diego) and Youhan Kim (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses for data retransmissions in a wireless network. In some implementations, a wireless communication device may transmit a first data unit to a receiving device, may receive a first hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback frame indicating that ...