ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,702, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Full duplex device-to-device cooperative communication" was invented by Fa-Long Luo (San Jose, Calif.), Tamara Schmitz (Scotts Valley, Calif.), Jeremy Chritz (Seattle) and Jaime Cummins (Bainbridge Island, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein include apparatuses and methods for full duplex device-to-device cooperative communication. Example systems described herein may include self-interference noise calculators. The output of a self-interference noise calculator may be used to compensate for the interference experienced due to sig...