ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,047, issued on July 29, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Control signaling reservation for radio-frequency exposure management" was invented by Sharad Sambhwani (San Diego), Madhukar K. Shanbhag (Santa Clara, Calif.), Sanjeevi Balasubramanian (San Jose, Calif.), Dirk Nickisch (Oberpframmern, Germany), Shiva Krishna Narra (San Jose, Calif.), Vishwanth Kamala Govindaraju (Mountain View, Calif.) and Sriram Subramanian (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may include radios that transmit signals using antennas. Control circuitry may assign radio-frequency exposure (RFE) budgets to the radi...