ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,465, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"SCell dormancy reliability improvement" was invented by Fangli Xu (Beijing), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Haijing Hu (Los Gatos, Calif.), Longda Xing (San Jose, Calif.), Murtaza A. Shikari (Mountain View, Calif.), Sarma V. Vangala (Campbell, Calif.), Sethuraman Gurumoorthy (San Ramon, Calif.), Srirang A. Lovlekar (Fremont, Calif.), Yuqin Chen (Beijing) and Zhibin Wu (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The exemplary embodiments relate to a computer readable storage medium, a user equipment, a method and an integrated circuit that perform operations...