ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,518, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Partial sensing for resource selection, reevaluation, and preemption" was invented by Chunxuan Ye (San Diego), Chunhai Yao (Beijing), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Haijing Hu (Los Gatos, Calif.), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Hong He (Cupertino, Calif.), Huaning Niu (Cupertino, Calif.), Jie Cui (San Jose, Calif.), Oghenekome Oteri (Cupertino, Calif.), Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian (Cupertino, Calif.), Sigen Ye (Whitehouse Station, N.J.), Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.), Weidong Yang (Cupertino, Calif.), Yuqin Chen (Beijing), Yushu Zhang (Beijing) and Zhibin Wu (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* rel...