ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,382, issued on March 18, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Information transmission method and terminal" was invented by Wei Bao (Guangdong, China) and Xiaodong Shen (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides an information transmission method and a terminal. The information transmission method includes: receiving DCI; determining a target bit sequence of to-be-transmitted HARQ-ACK information, where the to-be-transmitted HARQ-ACK information includes first information, and the first information is HARQ-ACK information that has not been successfully reported before...