ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,128, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Power control method and apparatus for wireless communication using spread spectrum" was invented by Jin Hyung Oh (Daejeon, South Korea), Kyu Min Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Jae Cheol Park (Daejeon, South Korea), Dong Woo Lim (Daejeon, South Korea), Su Na Choi (Daejeon, South Korea) and Sung Hyun Hwang (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power control method for reducing power consumption of a terminal during retransmission in a wireless communication system using spread spectrum may include: transm...