ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,648, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Timer operating method and device according to HARQ activation" was invented by Sangkyu Baek (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Soenghun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a communication technique merging IoT technology with a 5th generation (5G) or pre-5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4th generation (4G) communication system, such as long term evolution (LTE), and a system therefor. The present disclosure can be applied to intelligent serv...