ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,046, issued on April 22, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Throughput improvement for radio frames containing time division duplex (TDD) special slots or TDD/frequency division duplex (FDD) rate-matched slots" was invented by Ashutosh Vinod Agrawal (Bengaluru, India), Jae Won Yoo (San Diego), Manish Jain (San Jose, Calif.), Hari Sankar (San Diego) and Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for wireless communication by a network node includes transmitting a first group of frames comprising a group of normal slots and one or more first special slots. The method also includes reconfigurin...