MUMBAI, India, Nov. 2 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202617093986 A) filed by Apple Inc. on August 03, 2026, for Slot Format Configuration For Subband Full Duplex (sbfd) Operation.
Inventors include Sun, Haitong; Cui, Jie; Zhang, Dawei; Zeng, Wei; Fakoorian, Seyed Ali Akbar; Bhamri, Ankit; and Ye, Chunxuan.
The application for the patent was published on October 30, 2026, under issue no. 44/2026.
Abstract: A method of configuring, at a network, a slot format for subband full duplex (SBFD) operation between a user equipment (UE) and a base station is disclosed. The method comprises determining, for the UE, a slot format indication (SFI) for downlink (DL) and uplink (UL) transmission and reception of dat...