ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,783, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Ad-hoc radio bearer and inline signalling with layer arrangement" was invented by Christian Hofmann (Munich), Panagiotis Botsinis (Munich), Sameh M. Eldessoki (Munich) and Tarik Tabet (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 to provide ad-hoc radio bearers with different layer arrangements and headers for the layers."

The patent was filed on April 18, 2023, under Application No. 18/302,717.

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