ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,800, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems, apparatus, and methods for indicating spectrum sharing" was invented by Anatoliy Sergey Ioffe (Redwood City, Calif.), Alexander Sayenko (Munich), Elmar Wagner (Taufkirchen, Germany) and Piyush Kumar Garg (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for indicating to a spectrum access system communication preferences of a base station and/or of a network operator. Different methods may be used to indicate the communication preferences, including a dedicated type parameter transmitted with spect...