US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on Feb. 17 for "Indication of interoperability and deployment tested time-division duplex slot formats" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,353, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Indication of interoperability and deployment tested time-division duplex slot formats" was invented by Yupeng Jia (South Pasadena, Calif.) and Hongyan Lei (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject matter described herein are directed towards indicating to a wireless network device which time-division duplex slot patterns (slot formats) are supported by a user equipment device, e.g., which slot patterns have gone through interoperability and deployment testing (IODT) successfully with respect to the type of user equipment dev...