ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,612, issued on April 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Cooperative full-duplex techniques for sidelink communications" was invented by Anantharaman Balasubramanian (San Diego), Shuanshuan Wu (San Diego), Kapil Gulati (Belle Mead, N.J.) and Navid Abedini (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide for cooperative full-duplex techniques for sidelink communications. A first device that supports full-duplex communications may transmit a first message to a second device while concurrently receiving a second message from a third device...