US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Feb. 17 for "Deferred hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback for carrier switching" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,313, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Deferred hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback for carrier switching" was invented by Konstantinos Dimou (New York City, N.Y.), Yan Zhou (San Diego) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatuses for deferred hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback for carrier switching. Some aspects described herein enable a user equipment (UE) to transmit, drop, refrain from transmitting, or a combination thereof, deferred HARQ feedback in various communication scenarios that involve the use of carr...