ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,860, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Request based redundancy and early termination for outer coding" was invented by Qian Zhang (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Junyi Li (Greentown, Pa.) and Jelena Damnjanovic (Del Mar, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit a message requesting redundancy for one or more source symbols of a later transmission, and may receive the source symbols and one or more parity symbols in response. If the UE successfully decodes the source symbols while the full set of requested parit...