ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,949, issued on June 16, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Technologies for uplink gap triggering and operation" was invented by Huaning Niu (San Jose, Calif.), Qiming Li (Beijing), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Jie Cui (San Jose, Calif.), Manasa Raghavan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Sharad Sambhwani (Cupertino, Calif.), Xiang Chen (Campbell, Calif.) and Yang Tang (San Jose, 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 for triggering and using uplink gaps in cellular networks. A method of an embodiment comprises: transmitting, to a ba...