ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,201, issued on June 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Collision handling for cross division duplex operations" was invented by Chunxuan Ye (Cupertino, Calif.), Dawei Zhang (Cupertino, Calif.), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Hong He (Cupertino, Calif.), Oghenekome Oteri (Cupertino, Calif.), Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian (Cupertino, Calif.), Sigen Ye (Cupertino, Calif.), Weidong Yang (Cupertino, Calif.), Wei Zeng (Cupertino, Calif.), Yushu Zhang (Beijing) and Chunhai Yao (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment for cross-division duplex (XDD) operations comprises circuitry configured to perform operatio...