ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,346, issued on March 31, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Uplink indication for full-duplex operation" was invented by Ahmed Attia Abotabl (San Diego), Wanshi Chen (San Diego), Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar (San Jose, Calif.) and Huilin Xu (Temecula, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems, a user equipment (UE) and a base station may operate in a network that supports full-duplex communications. The UE may receive downlink communication and transmit uplink communication simultaneously and, in some cases, the uplink communication m...