ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,081, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Deferred semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) codebook appending order and priority" was invented by Konstantinos Dimou (New York City, N.Y.), Yan Zhou (San Diego) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of wireless communication by a user equipment (UE) includes deferring transmission of a first hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) codebook until a target PUCCH, due to potential collision of a first initial semi-persistently scheduled (SPS) physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) with a first downlink symbo...