ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,083, issued on June 16, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Network coding with hybrid automatic repeat request process" was invented by Ping-Heng Kuo (Cambridge, Great Britain), Hans Thomas Hohne (Espoo, Finland), Ling Yu (Espoo, Finland), Kalle Petteri Kela (Espoo, Finland) and Dawid Koziol (Wroclaw, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various example embodiments relate to generation of coded transport blocks in connection with hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process(es). A device may generate a plurality of protocol data units (PDU) for transmission. The PDUs may be stored in at least one HARQ buffer....