US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on March 11 for "Hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) mechanism for multicast in NR" (Swedish, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,081, issued on March 11, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) mechanism for multicast in NR" was invented by Erik Stare (Sollentuna, Sweden), Jose Angel Leon Calvo (Aachen, Germany), Jorg Huschke (Aachen, Germany), Stefan Parkvall (Bromma, Sweden), Ratheesh Kumar Mungara (Sundbyberg, Sweden) and Mats Folke (Vallingby, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments include methods, performed by a user equipment (UE), for hybrid ARQ (HARQ) feedback in relation to multicast transmissions from a network node in a radio access network (RAN). Such methods include re...