ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,085, issued on March 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for supporting HARQ feedback transmission in device-to-device communication system" was invented by Hyunjeong Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sangkyu Baek (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Anil Agiwal (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a 5th generation (5G) or pre-5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate than a 4th generation (4G) communication system such as Long-Term Evolution (LTE). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent servic...