ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,465, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Method of life cycle management using model ID and model function" was invented by Huaning Niu (San Jose, Calif.), Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Ankit Bhamri (Bad Nauheim, Germany), Hong He (San Jose, Calif.), Sigen Ye (San Diego), Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego), Weidong Yang (San Diego) and Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects are described for a user equipment (UE) comprising a transceiver configured to enable wireless communication with a base station, and a processor communicatively coupled to the...