ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,071, issued on July 29, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Devices and methods for flow-control triggering and feedback" was invented by Alexander Sirotkin (Tel-Aviv, Israel) and Jaemin Han (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, methods, communication nodes, base stations, storage media, and other embodiments are provided for managing associations in a communication network. In one example embodiment, a New Radio (NR) node is configured for NR user-plane protocol communications between a master node (MN) and a secondary node (SN). The NRnode is configured to generate a downlink (DL) user data message wi...