ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,959, issued on June 3, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Transmission delay compensation for intra-frequency band communication" was invented by Anatoliy Sergey Ioffe (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Elmar Wagner (Taufkirchen, Germany), Jan M. Zaleski (Altenberg bei Linz, Austria), Jie Cui (San Jose, Calif.), Yang Tang (San Jose, Calif.) and Andre Hanke (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for operating transceiver circuitry to transmit or receive signals on various frequency ranges. To do so, an electronic device may determine a receive delay between one or more mes...