ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,002, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Scheduling of multiple cells using a single downlink control information message" was invented by Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Hong He (San Jose, Calif.), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.), Huaning Niu (San Jose, Calif.), Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian (San Diego), Sigen Ye (Whitehouse Station, N.J.), Chunhai Yao (Beijing) and Ankit Bhamri (Bad Nauheim, Germany).

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 for multi-cell PUSCH/PDSCH scheduling with a sin...