ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,252, issued on May 27, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"UCI multiplexing enhancements" was invented by Weidong Yang (San Diego), Amir Farajidana (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Chunhai Yao (Beijing), Chunxuan Ye (San Diego), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Hong He (San Jose, Calif.), Jie Cui (San Jose, Calif.), Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego), Ruoheng Liu (San Diego), Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.), Yang Tang (San Jose, Calif.), Yuchul Kim (San Jose, Calif.) and Yushu Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and methods to enhance system performance (e.g., UL throughput) with...