ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,713,434, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Methods and apparatus for disabling of option 1 hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback for sidelink communication" was invented by Philippe Sartori (Naperville, Ill.) and Brian Classon (Palatine, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving a first indicator indicating distance based HARQ feedback operation with negative acknowledgement only and a first sidelink message grant; and determining that location information associated with a first communication device is unavailable, and based thereon, transmitting a second...