US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on June 23 for "Sequence number expansion" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,305, issued on June 23, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Sequence number expansion" was invented by Abhishek Pramod Patil (San Diego), Alfred Asterjadhi (San Diego), George Cherian (San Diego), Sai Yiu Duncan Ho (San Diego) and Lochan Verma (Danville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for identifying frames or packets of data that were received in error (such as incorrectly decoded or not received at all) by a receiving device for purposes of retransmission. In one aspect, a wireless device may form a...