ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,498, issued on March 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Full-duplex techniques in wireless communications" was invented by Min Huang (Beijing), Wanshi Chen (San Diego), Chao Wei (Beijing), Qiaoyu Li (Beijing), Yu Zhang (San Diego), Yuwei Ren (Beijing), Liangming Wu (Beijing), Chenxi Hao (Beijing), Changlong Xu (Beijing) and Hao Xu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described in which a base station operating in full-duplex mode may provide for reception of one or more higher priority transmissions using at least partially overlapping time-frequency resourc...