ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,567, issued on July 22, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Half duplex frequency division duplex collision handling" was invented by Hong He (San Jose, Calif.), Chunxuan Ye (San Diego), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Huaning Niu (San Jose, Calif.), Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian (San Diego), Sigen Ye (San Diego), Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.), Weidong Yang (San Diego) and Yushu Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) is configured to determine that half-duplex frequency division duplex (HD-FDD) is enabled by a network with which the UE is communicating, identify a c...