ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,769, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Data transmission method and apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Shijia Shao (Shenzhen, China), Chuangxin Jiang (Shenzhen, China), Huahua Xiao (Shenzhen, China), Shujuan Zhang (Shenzhen, China) and Zhaohua Lu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a data transmission method and apparatus, and a storage medium. The method includes: sending downlink control information (DCI) to a second communication node, where the DCI is configured for indicating one or more Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) offset values."

The patent was filed ...