ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,059, issued on July 29, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for data transfer over non-access stratum (NAS) control plane for cellular internet of things (CIOT) in a 5G system (5GS)" was invented by Vivek Gupta (San Jose, Calif.), Puneet Jain (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Meghashree Dattatri Kedalagudde (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of this disclosure include systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media for use in a wireless network for communicating data over control plane in a 5G system. For example, some embodiments are directed to a user equipment (UE). The ...