ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,776, issued on June 17, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Out-of-order packet handling in 5G/New Radio" was invented by Xin Wang (Morris Plains, N.J.), Hui Zhao (Marlboro, N.J.), Lily Zhu (Parsippany, N.J.) and Andrew E. Youtz (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) can receive a first data stream and a second data stream; store data units of the second data stream, as stored data units, in a buffer while a retransmission operation is performed for the first data stream; determine that a threshold is satisfied with regard to the buffer, wherein the threshold is ass...