ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,248, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to MediaTek Singapore Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Method and apparatus for capability indication of repetition for message 4 hybrid automatic repeat request feedback" was invented by Wen Tang (Beijing), Chun-Chia Chen (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Gilles Charbit (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Abhishek Roy (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various solutions for capability indication of repetition for Message 4 (Msg4) hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ)-acknowledgement (ACK) or Msg4 HARQ-negative ACK (NACK) are described. An apparatus may receive a system information block (SIB) from a netwo...