ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,316, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Configurable mini-slot retransmissions in sidelink communications" was invented by Ahmed Elshafie (San Diego), Seyedkianoush Hosseini (San Diego) and Wei Yang (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for a user equipment (UE) to determine a retransmission pattern within a slot based on a transport block retransmission selection scheme. In some cases, the UE may be allocated sub-slots within a slot for retransmitting multiple transport blocks, and may ...