ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,392, issued on March 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Enhancement on scheduling and HARQ-ACK feedback for URLLC, multiplexing scheme for control/data channel and DM-RS for NR, and activation mechanism, scheduling aspects, and synchronization signal (SS) blocks for new radio (NR) system with multiple bandwidth parts (BWPS)" was invented by Gang Xiong (Portland, Ore.), Jeongho Jeon (San Jose, Calif.), Joonyoung Cho (Portland, Ore.), Debdeep Chatterjee (San Jose, Calif.), Sergey Panteleev (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia) and Yushu Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, method, system and machine-readab...