ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,732, issued on April 29, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Early termination signal and HARQ-ACK feedback for PUSCH" was invented by Qiaoyang Ye (San Jose, Calif.), Debdeep Chatterjee (San Jose, Calif.), Gang Xiong (Beaverton, Ore.), Bharat Shrestha (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Salvatore Talarico (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of early termination of uplink data transmissions for a UE are described. The UE transmits capacity information that indicates that the UE supports use of an ETS. The ETS indicates successful reception by the eNB of the uplink data prior to an end of a scheduled tra...