ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,042, issued on July 21, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Uplink control information collision handling" was invented by Hong He (Cupertino, Calif.), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Haitong Sun (Irvine, Calif.), Jia Tang (San Jose, Calif.), Pengkai Zhao (San Jose, Calif.), Wei Zeng (San Diego), Wei Zhang (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Yuchul Kim (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are presented herein of apparatuses, systems, and methods for a user equipment device (UE) to group transmissions into one or more groups, e.g., of various priority levels and/or types of transmissions. The UE may resol...