ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,151, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to GREATER SHINE Ltd. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Mini-token bucket for uplink transmission" was invented by Su-Lin Low (San Diego), Tianan Ma (Palo Alto, Calif.), Hong Kui Yang (San Diego), Hausting Hong (San Diego) and Chun-I Lee (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of apparatuses and methods for uplink data transmission preparation and a baseband chip for packet preparation for uplink transmission are disclosed. In an example, a method for packet preparation for uplink transmission can include determining, by a user equipment, a quality of service identifier associated wi...