ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,482, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd. (Beijing).

"NBIOT HARQ related enhancement in NTN" was invented by Zhi Yan (Xicheng District, China), Hongmei Liu (Changping District, China), Yuantao Zhang (Dongcheng District, China), Yingying Li (Haidian District, China) and Haiming Wang (Xicheng District, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for narrowband Internet-of-things (NBIoT) hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) related enhancement in a non-terrestrial network (NTN) are disclosed. A method comprises transmitting a control signal, the control signal includes at least one of a transmissio...