ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,095, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Method performed by user equipment, user equipment, and base station to determine HARQ-ACK codebooks for sidelink and downlink transmissions" was invented by Chao Luo (Shanghai), Renmao Liu (Shanghai) and Yinan Zhao (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the present invention, provided are a method performed by user equipment and user equipment. The method includes: acquiring configuration information related to a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) codebook, the configuration information including a first HARQ-ACK codebook param...