ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,897, issued on May 26, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Time window based sidelink full-duplex" was invented by Yan Zhou (San Diego) and Hemant Saggar (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. User equipments (UEs) that operate in sidelink mode 2 may be configured with or agree upon time windows in which full-duplex communication is supported and time windows in which half-duplex communication is supported. The UEs may agree upon beam pair links to be used for full-duplex communication during the full-duplex time windows. A first UE may transmit sideli...