ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,033, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Time division duplex framework for wireless energy and information transfer" was invented by Xiaojie Wang (Hillsborough, N.J.), Piyush Gupta (Bridgewater, N.J.), Junyi Li (Greentown, Pa.) and Luanxia Yang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. An energy receiver may receive a first message that includes information indicative of a time division duplex (TDD) configuration for wireless energy and information transfer, the TDD configuration indicating a temporal arrangement of energy and information...