ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,148, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Apparatus and method for scheduling delayed ACKs/NACKs in LTE cellular systems" was invented by Nilesh Khude (Pune, India), Libin Jiang (Seattle), Saurabha Tavildar (San Francisco) and Shailesh Patil (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus may be an eNB. The eNB informs UE(s) of a change in at least one of a first configuration for transmission of ACKs/NACKs by the UE(s) for DL transmissions received by the UE(s) or a second configuration for reception of A...