ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,981, issued on May 20, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Full duplex operation in wireless systems" was invented by Pouriya Sadeghi (San Diego), Janet Stern-Berkowitz (Little Neck, N.Y.) and Moon Il Lee (Melville, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for providing for full-duplex (FD) operation in time division duplex (TDD) communications are disclosed herein. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may receive an indication of a first, UL heavy, TDD uplink (UL)/downlink (DL) configuration and an indication of a second, DL heavy, TDD UL/DL configuration. The WTRU may also rec...