ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,719, issued on March 17, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Fast ACK/NACK in wireless communication networks" was invented by Thomas Fehrenbach (Berlin), Thomas Wirth (Berlin), Cornelius Hellge (Berlin), Baris Goektepe (Berlin) and Lars Thiele (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A receiver is configured to receive and process a radio signal. The radio signal includes a first frequency band including a first signal, the first signal including a plurality of TDD-frames. The receiver is configured to evaluate reception of downlink data to obtain evaluation data. The receiver is further configured to ...