ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,292, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Receive (RX) rate control for thread coexistence with other radios" was invented by Venkateswara Rao Manepalli (San Jose, Calif.), Yaranama Venkata Ramana Dass (Belmont, Calif.) and Sarvesh Kumar Varatharajan (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach is described for a wireless device comprising a transceiver and a processor communicatively coupled to the transceiver. In a thread-based device, a thread radio coexists with a primary radio, such as a Bluetooth or WiFi radio. Because both radio share a common frequency band, the thread radio req...