ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,872, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Survival time communication techniques" was invented by Ralf Rossbach (Munich), Fangli Xu (Beijing), Haijing Hu (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Sarma V. Vangala (Campbell, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to techniques for performing wireless communications in a manner to provide enhanced reliability protections at certain times and/or for particular communications, e.g., to maintain or restore operation of an application following a communication failure. Among various possibilities, in order to enhance reliability any of the following acti...