ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,618, issued on April 29, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Overhead reduction for multi-carrier beam selection and power control" was invented by Yushu Zhang (Beijing), Chunhai Yao (Beijing), Chunxuan Ye (San Diego), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Fangli Xu (Beijing), Haijing Hu (Beijing), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Hong He (Cupertino, Calif.), Jie Cui (San Jose, Calif.), Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego), Wei Zeng (San Diego), Weidong Yang (San Diego), Yang Tang (San Jose, Calif.), Yuchul Kim (San Jose, Calif.) and Yuqin Chen (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and methods for overhe...