ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,553, issued on July 28, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).
"Method for controlling re-transmissions" was invented by Henri Markus Koskinen (Espoo, Finland), Samuli Heikki Turtinen (Oulu, Finland) and Benoist Pierre Sebire (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprising: means for providing an apparatus with a counter in a protocol entity; means for incrementing said counter in response to a timer used by the protocol entity in order to retransmit a poll expiring; and means for providing a Radio Resource Control (RRC) layer of said apparatus or a second apparatus with an indication in response to the...