ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,999, issued on July 21, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Timing advance techniques to manage cross link interference in 5G communication systems" was invented by Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian (San Diego), Haitong Sun (Cupetino, Calif.), Hong He (San Jose, Calif.), Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.), Chunxuan Ye (San Diego) and Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatuses disclosed herein can mitigate interference in a wireless network. These systems, methods, and apparatuses can identify a mode of operation of a base station (BS) and can select a time advance (TA) that is associa...