ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,100, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Handling intra user equipment uplink overlapping grants" was invented by Honglei Miao (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more methods of handling intra user equipment (UE) uplink (UL) overlapping grants. At least one of the methods includes: configuring a logical channel (LC) with a parameter defining a reliability metric associated with the LC; determining, based on the parameter, that a grant satisfies a reliability requirement; and transmitting data associated with the LC using the grant."

The patent was filed on April 10, 2020, under A...