ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,297, issued on July 28, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Radio (NR) multicast feedback switching" was invented by Le Liu (San Jose, Calif.), Peter Gaal (San Diego), Ayan Sengupta (San Diego), Alberto Rico Alvarino (San Diego), Kazuki Takeda (Minato-ku, Japan), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego), Wanshi Chen (San Diego), Prasad Reddy Kadiri (San Diego), Mostafa Khoshnevisan (San Diego), Umesh Phuyal (San Diego) and Xipeng Zhu (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Wireless communications systems and methods related to acknowledgement/negative-acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) feedback operations for multicast commun...