ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,687, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Phase tracking reference signal transmission for physical uplink shared channel reliability enhancement" was invented by Yushu Zhang (Beijing), Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.), Haitong Sun (Saratoga, Calif.), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Hong He (San Jose, Calif.), Chunxuan Ye (San Diego), Sigen Ye (San Diego), Weidong Yang (San Diego) and Huaning Niu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for physical uplink shared channel transmissions with repetitions on...