ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,378, issued on March 18, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Method and systems for multiple precoder indication for physical uplink shared channel communications" was invented by Yushu Zhang (Beijing), Chunhai Yao (Beijing), Chunxuan Ye (San Diego), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Hong He (San Jose, Calif.), Jie Cui (San Jose, Calif.), Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego), Sigen Ye (Whitehouse Station, N.J.), Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.) and Weidong Yang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Approaches for performing Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) transmissions include receiving, by ...