ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,795, issued on March 31, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"Method and user equipment for hybrid automatic repeat request mode operation in non-terrestrial network" was invented by Hsin-Hsi Tsai (Taipei, Taiwan), Chien-Chun Cheng (Taipei, Taiwan) and Yung-Lan Tseng (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a user equipment for performing a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) operation are provided. The method includes: receiving, from a Base Station (BS), a first configuration for a serving cell, the first configuration including a first bitmap for indicating a HARQ mode of each HARQ process in a f...