ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,824, issued on April 1, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Optimizing of scheduling" was invented by Ralf Rossbach (Bavaria-Bayern, Germany), Fangli Xu (Beijing), Haijing Hu (Cupertino, Calif.), Lakshmi Iyer (Cupertino, Calif.), Sabine Roessel (Bavaria-Bayern, Germany), Sarma V. Vangala (Cupertino, Calif.), Sree Ram Kodali (Cupertino, Calif.) and Sudeep Manithara Vamanan (Bavaria-Bayern, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for a user equipment (UE), comprising: receiving request for scheduling assistance from a base station, wherein the request for scheduling assistance comprises scheduling confi...