US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 8 for "Uplink skipping" (Chinese, American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,988, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Uplink skipping" was invented by Fangli Xu (Beijing), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Haijing Hu (Los Gatos, Calif.), Sigen Ye (San Diego), Sarma V Vangala (Campbell, Calif.), Murtaza A Shikari (Mountain View, Calif.), Srinivasan Nimmala (San Jose, Calif.) and Ralf Rossbach (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to devices, methods, apparatuses and computer readable storage media for prioritizing data transmissions. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, in accordance with a determination that there is an...