ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,247, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Uplink carrier aggregation antenna contention resolution" was invented by Vijendrakumar K Ashiwal (San Jose, Calif.), Vijay Venkataraman (San Jose, Calif.), Tiberiu Muresan (San Jose, Calif.), Sharad Garg (Cupertino, Calif.), Jia Tang (San Jose, Calif.), Pengkai Zhao (Cupertino, Calif.), Zhu Ji (Cupertino, Calif.), Vijay Gadde (San Jose, Calif.), Dikshit Garg (San Jose, Calif.) and Tarakkumar G Dhanani (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless device may comprise antennas and a processor configured to cause the wireless device to determine pref...