ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,362, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems, methods, and devices for out-of-order delivery with multiple RLC entities" was invented by Ralf Rossbach (Munich), Fangli Xu (Beijing), Bobby Jose (San Diego), Ping-Heng Kuo (London), Vijay Venkataraman (San Jose, Calif.) and Haijing Hu (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The techniques described herein may include a device, comprising: a memory; and one or more processors configured to, when executing instructions stored in the memory, cause the device to: communicate, via a wireless communication network, information as in-order traffic ...