ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,496, issued on July 21, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Capability reporting for full-duplex wireless communications" was invented by Ahmed Attia Abotabl (San Diego), Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar (San Jose, Calif.), Abdelrahman Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed Ibrahim (San Diego) and Yi Huang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may establish a connection with a network entity for operation within a time division duplex (TDD) frequency band. The UE may transmit, to the network entity via the TDD frequency band, capability inform...