ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,537, issued on July 22, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving HARQ-ACK feedback for network cooperative communication" was invented by Youngrok Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Euichang Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hyoungju Ji (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a communication technique that converges a 5th generation (5G) communication system for supporting a higher data rate after a 4th generation (4G) system with Internet of things (IoT) technology, and a system thereof. The disclosure can be applied to in...