ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,251, issued on May 27, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Super-slot based data transmission in wireless communication" was invented by Hong He (San Jose, Calif.), Chunhai Yao (Beijing), Chunxuan Ye (San Diego), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego), Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian (San Diego), Sigen Ye (Whitehouse Station, N.J.), Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.), Weidong Yang (San Diego) and Yushu Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) receives a resource allocation for a shared channel transmission that includes mapping modulated symbols of a tr...