ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,738, issued on June 10, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems, methods, and apparatuses for cross division duplex operation in wireless communication" was invented by Hong He (San Jose, Calif.), Chunhai Yao (Beijing), Chunxuan Ye (San Diego), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego), Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian (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: "Systems, methods, and apparatuses for cross division duplex (XDD) operation in a wireless communication system are described herein. A ...