ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,201, issued on April 8, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Radio link control cumulative mode for new radio" was invented by Sarma V. Vangala (Campbell, Calif.), Alexander Sirotkin (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Fangli Xu (Beijing), Haijing Hu (Los Gatos, Calif.), Naveen Kumar R. Palle Venkata (San Diego), Pavan Nuggehalli (San Carlos, Calif.), Ralf Rossbach (Munich), Sethuraman Gurumoorthy (San Ramon, Calif.), Yuqin Chen (Beijing) and Zhibin Wu (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) configured to receive a first cumulative acknowledgement (ACK) from a protocol s...