ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,030, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Uplink power control for dual connectivity" was invented by Hong He (San Jose, Calif.), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Jie Cui (San Jose, Calif.), Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.) and Yang Tang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) configured to perform uplink power control. The UE determines that a first uplink transmission is scheduled to overlap in time with a second uplink transmission based on a look ahead window, determines a first transmission power for the first uplink transmission, determines a second transmission power for ...