ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,562, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to BUNKER HILL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Allen, Texas).

"Method and device for relay transmission" was invented by Xiaobo Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first node transmits a first physical-layer signaling and a first Medium Access Control (MAC) Protocol Data Unit (PDU) via an air interface. The first MAC PDU comprises a first MAC header and a first MAC Service Data Unit (SDU). The first node monitors a first Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest Acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) on each channel in a first channel set, and the first HARQ-ACK indicates whether the first MAC PDU is correctly decoded. T...