ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,988, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Modularized design for inter-physical layer priority UCI multiplexing" was invented by Weidong Yang (San Digeo, Calif.), Amir Aminzadeh Gohari (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Chao Jin (San Diego), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Hong He (San Jose, Calif.), Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego), Ruoheng Liu (San Diego), Sigen Ye (San Diego), Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.), Wenshu Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Yinghui Li (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for modularized design for inter-physical layer priority uplink control information (UCI) multiple...