ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,060, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Unified operation for user equipment groups" was invented by Dirk Nickisch (Oberpframmern, Germany), Sharad Sambhwani (San Diego), Dhiraj J Shirke (San Jose, Calif.), Madhukar K Shanbhag (Santa Clara, Calif.), Parvathanathan Subrahmanya (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Pranav Tripathi (San Jose, Calif.), Rohit U Nabar (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Sanjeevi Balasubramanian (San Jose, Calif.), Shiva Krishna Narra (San Jose, Calif.), Sriram Subramanian (Santa Clara, Calif.), Tarik Tabet (San Diego), Vishwanth Kamala Govindaraju (Mountain View, Calif.) and Yakun Sun (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. P...