US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 29 for "Local coordinated communications for user equipment devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,744, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Local coordinated communications for user equipment devices" was invented by Tarik Tabet (Carlsbad, Calif.), Said Medjkouh (San Diego) and Sreevalsan Vallath (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network may include user equipment (UE) devices and a base station that communicates using a control unit (CU) and a data unit (DU). A primary UE may duplicate the DU and a subset of control functions of the CU. When the DU on the primary UE is active, the base station and primary UE may effectuate a split or bearer duplication of the DU at the RLC/PDCP/MAC...