ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,020, issued on July 21, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Indication of uplink transmission in downlink symbol" was invented by Hyejung Jung (Northbrook, Ill.), Alexander Johann Maria Golitschek Edler von Elbwart (Darmstadt, Germany), Hossein Bagheri (Urbana, Ill.), Ankit Bhamri (Rodermark, Germany) and Vijay Nangia (Woodridge, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for flexible uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) communications with full duplex operation. One apparatus includes a transceiver that receives a first indication to operate in a full duplex aware mode and rec...