ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,972, issued on July 21, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"User equipment (UE) capability reporting in association with simultaneous uplink transmissions using multiple antenna panels" was invented by Haitong Sun (Saratoga, Calif.), Chunxuan Ye (San Diego), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Hong He (San Jose, Calif.), Jie Cui (San Jose, Calif.) and Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.).

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 that support capability index reporting associated with multi-antenna panel uplink transmissions. In an example, a base ...