ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,713,430, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Control channel and reference signal transmission in wireless networks" was invented by Hong He (San Jose, Calif.), Chunhai Yao (Beijing), Chunxuan Ye (San Diego), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Haitong Sun (Saratoga, Calif.), Huaning Niu (San Jose, Calif.), Jie Cui (San Jose, Calif.), Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego), Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian (San Diego), Sigen Ye (San Diego), Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.), Weidong Yang (San Diego) and Yushu Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, ...