ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,368, issued on June 24, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Prioritized signaling via functional application programming interface (FAPI)" was invented by Yaniv Elgarisi (San Diego), Andrei Dragos Radulescu (La Jolla, Calif.) and Lior Uziel (Hod Hasharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to wireless communications, and more particularly, to techniques for prioritized signaling via a functional application programming interface (FAPI). A method for conveying uplink (UL) payload may include receiving, at a physical (PHY) layer, a UL payload from one or more user equipments (...