ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,814, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Full duplex optical communications with modulated retro reflector" was invented by Yehonatan Dallal (Kfar Saba, Israel), Shay Landis (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Idan Michael Horn (Hod Hasharon, Israel) and Amit Bar-Or Tillinger (Tel-Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Techniques described herein provide for a user equipment (UE) with a Modulated Retro Reflector (MRR) to support full duplex Optical Wireless Communications. To achieve full duplex communication, the UE and a network entity may ...