ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,534, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to GREATER SHINE Ltd. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Uplink medium access control token scheduling for multiple-carrier packet data transmission" was invented by Su-Lin Low (San Diego), Tianan Ma (San Diego) and Chun-I Lee (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for data packet processing can include a plurality of microcontrollers configured to perform dedicated layer-two circuit control functions. The plurality of microcontrollers can be configured to concurrently retrieve data from a set of common logical channels. The dedicated layer-two circuit control functions can include logical cha...