ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,847, issued on March 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Flexible feedback with outer coding" was invented by Sanket Sanjay Kalamkar (San Diego), Ravi Agarwal (San Diego), Yih-Hao Lin (San Diego), Peerapol Tinnakornsrisuphap (San Diego), Prashanth Haridas Hande (San Diego), Mickael Mondet (Louannec, France), Hyun Yong Lee (San Diego), Chih-Ping Li (San Diego) and Amira Alloum (Boulogne Billancourt, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive multiple transport blocks (TBs) representing an application data unit (ADU) from ...