US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Sept. 2 for "Unlicensed-licensed cross-carrier retransmission" (California, New Jersey, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,447, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Unlicensed-licensed cross-carrier retransmission" was invented by Stelios Stefanatos (San Diego), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.), Qing Li (Princeton Junction, N.J.) and Shuanshuan Wu (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, an apparatus of a user equipment (UE) may transmit, over an unlicensed carrier, an initial transmission of a transport block (TB) satisfying a condition and an indication that a retransmission of the TB will be communicated over a licensed carri...