ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,295, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Systems and methods for coverage enhancement in non terrestrial network" was invented by Fangyu Cui (Shenzhen, China), Nan Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Wei Cao (Shenzhen, China) and Junli Li (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented are systems and methods for coverage enhancement in non-terrestrial networks (NTN). A wireless communication device may determine a set of one or more resources to use for indicating information for physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) repetition of msg4 hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) transmiss...