ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,563, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Assisted acknowledgement for wireless streaming" was invented by Skanda Kumar Kaipu Narahari (Bangalore, India), Sourabh Jana (Bangalore, India) and Nitin Raghavendra Kidiyoor (Bangalore, India).

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, an assisting wireless device may track a first retransmission metric that is based on a number of retransmitted packets that the assisting wireless device received from a source device. The assisting wireless device may receive, from a sink wirele...