ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,609, issued on June 10, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Beam information reporting for PUCCH secondary cell activation" was invented by Jie Cui (San Jose, Calif.), Qiming Li (Beijing), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Hong He (San Jose, Calif.), Huaning Niu (San Jose, Calif.), Manasa Raghavan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Xiang Chen (Campbell, Calif.), Yang Tang (San Jose, Calif.) and Yushu Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) is configured to report beam information for a secondary cell. The UE receives a signal from a network indicating that a physical uplink co...