ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,805, issued on May 20, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) (Stockholm).

"SPS with skipping transmissions and adaptive HARQ" was invented by Torsten Dudda (Wassenberg, Germany) and Henrik Enbuske (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method in a wireless device for adaptive HARQ retransmissions comprises receiving, from a network node, a request to initiate an adaptive hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) retransmission. The method comprises identifying a HARQ process associated with the HARQ retransmission request and determining whether a HARQ buffer of the HARQ process is empty. In resp...