ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,604, issued on April 7, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Uplink control information for enabling autonomous uplink transmissions" was invented by Hong He (San Jose, Calif.), Chunhai Yao (Beijing), Chunxuan Ye (San Diego), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Pengkai Zhao (Cupertino, Calif.), Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.), Wei Zhang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Weidong Yang (San Diego), Yuchul Kim (San Jose, Calif.), Yushu Zhang (Beijing) and Zhibin Wu (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments include a computer readable storage medium, a user equipment, a method and an integrate...