ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,264, issued on July 28, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for time division duplex slot pattern determination" was invented by Sylvestre Demonget (Millburn, N.J.), David Albert Rossetti (Randolph, N.J.), Anand J. Shah (Parsippany, N.J.) and Madhusudan Mandyam Bheemarayan (Hillsborough, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a user equipment (UE) may determine that the UE is operating in a time division duplex (TDD) boundary region in which the UE receives or measures signals from two or more cells or other UEs. The UE may determine that a first TDD slot...