ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,720, issued on April 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Transmission configuration determination for grant-free transmissions in full-duplex systems" was invented by Tianyang Bai (Somerville, N.J.), Tao Luo (San Diego) and Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for adapting a configuration for transmitting or receiving a semi-persistent transmission to minimize self-interference when appropriate and maximize throughput. A first device and a second device may determine whether the semi-...