ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,846, issued on March 18, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ)-acknowledgement (ACK) feedback for semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) release" was invented by Yushu Zhang (Beijing), Hong He (Cupertino, Calif.), Dawei Zhang (Cupertino, Calif.), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Jie Cui (Cupertino, Calif.), Manasa Raghavan (Cupertino, Calif.), Wei Zeng (Cupertino, Calif.) and Yang Tang (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) device is disclosed. The UE device comprises a processor configured t...