ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,795, issued on May 20, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Confirmatory signaling for multi-PUSCH and multi-PDSCH scheduling" was invented by Hong He (Cupertino, Calif.), Chunhai Yao (Beijing), Dawei Zhang (Cupertino, Calif.), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Huaning Niu (Cupertino, Calif.), Jie Cui (Cupertino, Calif.), Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego), Sigen Ye (San Diego), Wei Zeng (Cupertino, Calif.), Weidong Yang (San Diego) and Yushu Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods disclosed herein relate to confirmatory signaling sent by a base station for the use of multiple physical uplink control ch...