ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,219, issued on May 13, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Base station access control techniques for inactive direct transmission" was invented by Fangli Xu (Beijing), Chunhai Yao (Beijing), Dawei Zhang (Cupertino, Calif.), Haijing Hu (Cupertino, Calif.), Longda Xing (Cupertino, Calif.), Murtaza A. Shikari (Cupertino, Calif.), Sarma V. Vangala (Cupertino, Calif.), Srinivasan Nimmala (Cupertino, Calif.) and Wei Zeng (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station associated with a wireless communication system is disclosed. The base station comprises one or more processors configured to generate a servic...