ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,580, issued on May 27, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for in-band full-duplex communication" was invented by Sung Hyun Moon (Daejeon, South Korea), Cheul Soon Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jung Hoon Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of a terminal may comprise: receiving, from a base station, configuration information of a guard band configured within a carrier bandwidth; determining a first transmission direction of a first subband configured in a higher frequency region from the guard band within the carrier bandwidth...