ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,214, issued on July 29, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Wireless telecommunications apparatus and methods for retransmission of a subset of data" was invented by Martin Warwick Beale (Basingstoke, Great Britain), Shin Horng Wong (Basingstoke, Great Britain) and Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri (Basingstoke, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A retransmission method for use in a telecommunications system, the method comprising: transmitting, to a terminal, first data in a set of identified resources allocated for the transmission of the first data; identifying that a portion of the identified resources has been used to ...