ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,215, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Coordination of communication protocols using a shared front-end module" was invented by Farouk Belghoul (Campbell, Calif.), Tideya Kella (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Ehsan Haghani (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit component may determine whether first signal indicative of at least one of the plurality of communication interface circuits accessing the FEM during a respective communication slot associated with the FEM has been received, determine a first Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) value for the respective communication slo...