ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,027, issued on April 7, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).
"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Meixin Lin (Hangzhou, China), Xian Meng (Hangzhou, China), Yunfei Qiao (Hangzhou, China) and Dali Qin (Hangzhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A media access control element (MAC CE) indicates a terminal device to enable or disable at least one hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process, or the MAC CE requests a network device to enable or disable the at least one HARQ process. This provides a solution for dynamically controlling a HARQ function."
The patent was filed on March 7, 20...