ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,356, issued on May 13, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Retransmission optimization mechanisms" was invented by Sagar Lnu (Hyderabad, India), Sujeet Mandloi (Indore, India) and Manas Ranjan Patro (Berhampur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Some wireless communications systems may support retransmission optimization mechanisms. For example, a first network node may receive one or more signals, each of the one or more signals received as an initial retransmission and as one or more retransmissions according to a first redundancy version (RV) index ...