ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,721, issued on July 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Out of order hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) transmission in presence of deferred semi-persistently scheduled (SPS) physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) HARQ" was invented by Konstantinos Dimou (New York City, N.Y.), Tao Luo (San Diego), Yi Huang (San Diego), Peter Gaal (San Diego), Seyedkianoush Hosseini (San Diego), Yan Zhou (San Diego) and Wanshi Chen (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a method for wireless communications by a user equipment (UE). The UE determines that a scheduled occasion for rep...