ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,032, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Communication devices and methods for concatenating service data units" was invented by Ralf Rossbach (Neubiberg, Germany), Fangli Xu (Beijing), Alexander Sirotkin (Tel Aviv, Israel), Bobby Jose (San Diego), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Francois E. Deparis (Zirndorf, Germany), Haijing Hu (Los Gatos, Calif.), Mohamed Mounir Mohamed Abdelrahman (Unterhaching, Germany), Murali Narasimha (San Ramon, Calif.), Murtaza A. Shikari (Mountain View, Calif.), Naveen Kumar R. Palle Venkata (San Diego), Pavan Nuggehalli (San Carlos, Calif.), Ralf Itjeshorst (Walpertskirchen, Germany), Sarma V. Vangala (Campbell, Calif.)...