ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,948, issued on June 16, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Data transmission scheme" was invented by Linxi Hu (Shenzhen, China), Nan Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Zhen Yang (Shenzhen, China) and Jianqiang Dai (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented are systems and methods for indicating whether a scheduled data transmission is a retransmission or a new transmission. A wireless communication device may receive a downlink control indicator (DCI) including a first indicator from a wireless communication node. The wireless communication node may transmit the DCI including the first indicator to a wireless communic...