ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,799, issued on April 21, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Dynamic signaling of the downlink and uplink subframe allocation for a TDD wireless communication system" was invented by Anthony Edet Ekpenyong (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for use in a wireless communication network, comprising a processing resource configured to determine a time interval for periodic time division duplex (TDD) Uplink/Downlink (UL/DL) reconfiguration windows, generate a UL/DL reconfiguration command to indicate a dynamic TDD UL/DL allocation change, and encode the UL/DL reconfiguration command in a physical downlink ...