ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,788, issued on April 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Time domain window determination for wireless communication" was invented by Chunhai Yao (Beijing), Chunxuan Ye (San Diego), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Hong He (San Jose, Calif.), Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego), Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian (San Diego), Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.), Weidong Yang (San Diego) and Yushu Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to techniques for performing wireless communications including determination of actual time windows for maintaining power consistency and/or phase ...