ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,044, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Method and user equipment for hybrid automatic repeat request feedback operation" was invented by Hsin-Hsi Tsai (Taipei, Taiwan) and Chien-Chun Cheng (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a user equipment for performing a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) feedback operation are provided. The method includes: receiving, from a Base Station (BS), a first configuration indicating whether HARQ feedback for a HARQ process is enabled or disabled; receiving, from the BS, Downlink Control Information (DCI) on a Physical Downlink Control Channel (...