US Patent Issued to Apple on Oct. 7 for "Access control of user equipments for inactive direct transmissions" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,471, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Access control of user equipments for inactive direct transmissions" was invented by Fangli Xu (Beijing), Chunhai Yao (Beijing), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Haijing Hu (Beijing), Longda Xing (Cupertino, Calif.), Murtaza A. Shikari (Cupertino, Calif.), Sarma V. Vangala (Cupertino, Calif.), Srinivasan Nimmala (Cupertino, Calif.) and Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) associated with a wireless communication system is disclosed. The UE comprises one or more processors configured to process a service configuration signa...