ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,806, issued on April 21, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Disallowed communication direction for full-duplex time intervals" was invented by Mostafa Khoshnevisan (San Diego), Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar (San Jose, Calif.), Jing Sun (San Diego) and Abdelrahman Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed Ibrahim (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. Some aspects relate to a disallowed communication direction for full-duplex time intervals. Some aspects more specifically relate to defining, for a user equipment (UE), an allowable communication directi...