ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,639, issued on April 22, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Bandwidth operation for full duplex user equipment" was invented by Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar (San Jose, Calif.), Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.), Yeliz Tokgoz (San Diego), Wanshi Chen (San Diego), Huilin Xu (San Diego), Ahmed Attia Abotabl (San Diego), Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli (San Diego) and Tingfang Ji (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and apparatus for adapting bandwidth operation for full duplex user equipments (UEs) are described. One technique involves a base station (BS) determining a plurality of resource bandwidths (BWs)...