ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,435, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Inter-UE communication coordination and collision response" was invented by Chunhai Yao (Beijing), Chunxuan Ye (San Diego), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego), Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian (San Diego), Sudhir K. Baghel (Fremont, Calif.), Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.), Weidong Yang (San Diego) and Yushu Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques described herein may include new and enhanced solutions for several aspects of inter-UE communications. For example, techniques described herein may provid...