ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,777, issued on July 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Channel quality information feedback techniques" was invented by Alexei Davydov (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), Seunghee Han (San Jose, Calif.), Yuan Zhu (Beijing), Xiaogang Chen (Portland, Ore.), Alexander Maltsev (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia) and Gregory Morozov (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments are generally directed to improved channel quality information feedback techniques. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus for a base station is provided that includes a radio interface and a processor coupled to the radio interfa...