ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,333, issued on March 31, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Methods, system, user equipment, and apparatus for uplink resource muting operation in wireless communication" was invented by Dawei Zhang (Cupertino, Calif.), Wei Zeng (Cupertino, Calif.), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Yushu Zhang (Beijing), Oghenekome Oteri (Cupertino, Calif.), Chunxuan Ye (Cupertino, Calif.), Weidong Yang (Cupertino, Calif.), Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian (Cupertino, Calif.), Sigen Ye (Cupertino, Calif.), Chunhai Yao (Beijing) and Hong He (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatuses for muting resource ...