ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,973, issued on June 2, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Multiple layer physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission that uses more than one codeword" was invented by Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Jie Cui (San Jose, Calif.), Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego), Huaning Niu (San Jose, Calif.), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Chunxuan Ye (San Diego), Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.) and Sigen Ye (Whitehouse Station, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) includes a transceiver and a processor. The processor is configured to receive, from a network and via the transceiver, a configuration for a multiple la...