ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,121, issued on July 1, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus for support of data transmission traffic with non-integer periodicity in wireless communication" was invented by Weidong Yang (Cupertino, Calif.), Chunhai Yao (Beijing), Chunxuan Ye (Cupertino, Calif.), Dawei Zhang (Cupertino, Calif.), Fangli Xu (Cupertino, Calif.), Haijing Hu (Cupertino, Calif.), Oghenekome Oteri (Cupertino, Calif.), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Hong He (Cupertino, Calif.), Huaning Niu (Cupertino, Calif.), Sarma V. Vangala (Cupertino, Calif.), Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian (Cupertino, Calif.), Sigen Ye (Cupertino, Calif.), Wei Zeng (Cupertino, Calif.) and Yushu Zhang (Cup...