ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,379, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus of a user equipment for subsequent transmission in inactive state in wireless communication" was invented by Fangli Xu (Cupertino, Calif.), Chunhai Yao (Cupertino, Calif.), Dawei Zhang (Cupertino, Calif.), Haijing Hu (Cupertino, Calif.), Sarma V. Vangala (Cupertino, Calif.), Srinivasan Nimmala (Cupertino, Calif.) and Murtaza A Shikari (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) device including an antenna, a memory, a RF circuitry commutatively coupled to the antenna, and a processor configured to perform operati...