ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,852, issued on May 26, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Reduction of duplicate acknowledgments" was invented by Peng Wu (Shanghai), Shailesh Maheshwari (San Diego), Arnaud Meylan (San Diego), Arun Prasanth Balasubramanian (San Diego) and Yuyi Li (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A wireless node may receive one or more data messages which may include a set of packets that may each be associated with a sequence number. The set of packets may be received with a gap in the set of sequence numbers, indicating missing packets. The wireless node may fo...