ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,317, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Method for acknowledgment feedback in non-terrestrial networks" was invented by Rapeepat Ratasuk (Inverness, Ill.), Jeroen Wigard (Klarup, Denmark), Mads Lauridsen (Gistrup, Denmark) and Frank Frederiksen (Klarup, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various techniques are provided for generating and communicating an acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK)."

The patent was filed on Sept. 16, 2021, under Application No. 18/246,580.

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