ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,567, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Determination of number of physical uplink control channel repetitions for machine type communications" was invented by Debdeep Chatterjee (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, an apparatus of a machine-type communication (MTC) user equipment (UE) comprises baseband processing circuitry to establish a radio resource control (RRC) connection with an evolved Node B (eNB), and process a message from the eNB indicating a number of repetitions of physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmissions to be ...