ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,117, issued on July 1, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Cross carrier scheduling with different sub-carrier spacing capability reporting" was invented by Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Yushu Zhang (Beijing), Chunhai Yao (Beijing), Chunxuan Ye (San Diego), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Hong He (San Jose, Calif.), Jia Tang (San Jose, Calif.), Jie Cui (San Jose, Calif.), Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego), Sigen Ye (San Diego), Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.), Wei Zhang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Weidong Yang (San Diego) and Yang Tang (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Reporting capabilities regarding Cross Carrier S...