ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,154, issued on June 2, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods and procedures for simultaneous transmissions and reception" was invented by Loic Canonne-Velasquez (Dorval, Canada), Afshin Haghighat (Ile-Bizard, Canada), Young Woo Kwak (Woodbury, N.Y.), Moon Il Lee (Melville, N.Y.) and Paul Marinier (Brossard, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System(s), method(s), and device(s) for simultaneous transmission and reception is disclosed here. A wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) may have multiple antenna panels which may be capable of different modes of operation, such as simultaneous DL/DL (...