ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,243, issued on July 28, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"MAC architectures for adaptive NOMA modulation" was invented by Ayman F. Naguib (Cupertino, Calif.), Danila Zaev (Munich) and Kenza Hamidouche (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes a wireless transceiver and a processor. The processor is configured to determine a set of resources to be used for a set of multiplexed non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) transmissions to or from a set of wireless devices; select, per individual wireless device of the set of wireless devices, a forward error correction (FEC) coding scheme to be used fo...