ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,632, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Ue signal to interference power ratio detection for network scheduling assistance" was invented by Fucheng Wang (Cupertino, Calif.), Anatoliy Sergey Ioffe (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Camila Priale Olivares (Munich), Daniel Popp (Munich), Alexander Sayenko (Munich) and Elmar Wagner (Taufkirchen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments disclosed herein relate to techniques for measuring and/or detecting a signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) of a received signal at a user equipment (UE). The received signal may include a desired signal, co-channel interference, ...