ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,280, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"User equipment aggregation for downlink communications" was invented by Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian (San Diego), Chunhai Yao (Beijing), Chunxuan Ye (San Diego), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Haijing Hu (Los Gatos, Calif.), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Huaning Niu (San Jose, Calif.), 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, systems, and methods for UE aggregation for downlink communications in wireless networks."

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