ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,061, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Methods and apparatus for disabled HARQ processes" was invented by Hazhir Shokri Razaghi (Solna, Sweden) and Xingqin Lin (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for a UE (1700) to transmit HARQ feedback for data transmissions from a wireless network is disclosed. The UE receives (1530), from the network, a first data message associated with a first HARQ process and a second data message associated with a second HARQ process. At least one of the first and second HARQ processes is disabled. The second data message is received ...