ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,007, issued on March 24, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Super-slot format for half duplex (HD) frequency-division duplex (FDD) (HD-FDD) in wireless communication" was invented by Jing Lei (San Diego), Peter Gaal (San Diego), Peter Pui Lok Ang (San Diego), Huilin Xu (Temecula, Calif.), Chao Wei (Beijing), Wanshi Chen (San Diego), Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli (San Diego), Hwan Joon Kwon (San Diego) and Tingfang Ji (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Wireless devices can use various super-slot formats to facilitate wireless communication using half duplex (HD) frequency-division duplex (FDD) (HD-FDD). A super-slot has a ...