ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,868, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Systems and methods for enabling or disabling HARQ feedback" was invented by Fangyu Cui (Shenzhen, China), Nan Zhang (Shenzhen, China) and Yachao Yin (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented are systems and methods for enabling or disabling hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback. A wireless communication device (e.g., UE) may determine a transmission setting for coverage enhancement (CE). The wireless communication device may determine whether to disable at least one HARQ process according to the transmission setting for CE."

The patent w...