ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,865, issued on July 15, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"HARQ process / entity based uplink multiplexing" was invented by Eiko Seidel (Sauerlach, Germany), Baris Goktepe (Berlin), Thomas Fehrenbach (Berlin), Thomas Wirth (Berlin), Thomas Schierl (Berlin) and Cornelius Hellge (Berlin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments provide an apparatus, wherein the apparatus includes a plurality of Hybrid ARQ, HARQ, entities, each of the plurality of HARQ entities configured to operate a HARQ process associated with one of a plurality of HARQ behaviors, the plurality of HARQ behaviors being different, and/...