ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,994, issued on June 2, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Sensing signal transmission in irregular slots" was invented by Marwen Zorgui (San Diego), Ahmed Attia Abotabl (San Diego) and Mohammed Ali Mohammed Hirzallah (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An irregular slot may include a scenario in which a user equipment (UE) transmits a sensing signal, which may be an uplink transmission, in a downlink slot or a flexible slot. In some other examples, an irregular slot may include a scenario in which a transmit receive point (TRP) transmits a sensing signal, which may be a downlink transmission, in an uplink slot or a flex...