ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,079, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"System and method for closed-loop uplink 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.), Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego), Shu Guo (Beijing), Wei Zeng (San Diego), Weidong Yang (San Diego), Yuchul Kim (Santa Clara, Calif.), Yuqin Chen (Shenzhen, China) and Zhibin Wu (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are presented herein of apparatuses, systems, and me...