ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,096, issued on July 28, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Soft guard band" was invented by Min Soo Sim (San Diego), Shubham Ahuja (San Diego), Wooseok Nam (San Diego), Alexander Dorosenco (El Cajon, Calif.) and Tao Luo (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. In some aspects, a wireless device may select one or more parameters for a soft guard band in a subband full duplex slot that are different than one or more parameters for a hard guard band. The wireless device may transmit or receive a communication using the soft guard band the har...