ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,366, issued on May 27, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Electronic devices with hierarchical management of radio-frequency exposure" was invented by Sharad Sambhwani (San Diego), Digvijay A. Jadhav (San Jose, Calif.), Dirk Nickisch (Oberpframmern, Germany), Gil Katzir (San Diego) and Laxminarayana Pillutla (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may include a first set of radios subject to a specific absorption rate (SAR) limit and a second set of radios subject to a maximum permissible exposure (MPE) limit over an averaging period. Control circuitry may dynamically adjust radio-frequency (RF) e...