ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,296, issued on May 27, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for control signaling of uplink transmission for multiple antenna panels" was invented by Yushu Zhang (Beijing), Gang Xiong (Portland, Ore.), Guotong Wang (Beijing), Bishwarup Mondal (San Ramon, Calif.) and Alexei Davydov (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for use in a wireless network for control signaling of uplink transmission for multiple antenna panels."

The patent was filed on Jan. 6, 2020, under Application No. 17/419,438.

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