ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,713, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Semi-persistent scheduling physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) hybrid automatic repeat request deferral for PUCCH groups" was invented by Konstantinos Dimou (New York City, N.Y.), Yan Zhou (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego) and Mostafa Khoshnevisan (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus, methods, and computer-readable media for semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) deferral for PUCCH groups are disclosed herein. A user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, a downlink...