ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,953, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Soft-combining for hybrid automatic repeat request feedback" was invented by Changlong Xu (Beijing), Jing Sun (San Diego), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego), Peter Gaal (San Diego), Juan Montojo (San Diego), Yisheng Xue (San Diego), Ozcan Ozturk (San Diego) and Olufunmilola Omolade Awoniyi-Oteri (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a base station may transmit, to a group of user equipment (UEs), a multi-user packet including a plurality of transport ...