ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,366, issued on May 13, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback control for multicast communications" was invented by Le Liu (San Jose, Calif.), Alberto Rico Alvarino (San Diego), Kazuki Takeda (Tokyo), Wanshi Chen (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego), Ayan Sengupta (San Diego), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego) and Peter Gaal (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving, from a base station, a first indication to disable hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback for a number of instances of a multicast ...