ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,417, issued on May 12, was assigned to Ofinno LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Multiple cells scheduling with hybrid automatic repeat request" was invented by Kai Xu (Great Falls, Va.), Hua Zhou (Vienna, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Ali Cagatay Cirik (Chantilly, Va.) and Hyoungsuk Jeon (Centreville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless device receives downlink control information (DCI) scheduling a first transport block via a first cell and a second transport block via a second cell. The DCI also comprises a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process number. The wireless device decodes the first transport block, received v...