ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,775, issued on July 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Multi-device synchronization and data transmission" was invented by Firouz Behnamfar (Los Gatos, Calif.), Ahmed Moustafa (Unterhaching, Germany), Ahmed Mostafa Ali Soliman (Munich), Sree Ram Kodali (San Jose, Calif.) and Christian W. Mucke (Bad Hofgastein, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "First user equipment (UE) exchanges at least a portion of data to be transmitted to a communication network with a second UE on a side channel. The UEs then send the data to the network at increased transmission power by using transmit antennas of both the first and secon...