ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,306, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Dormant bandwidth part (BWP) configuration for full-duplex operation" was invented by Ahmed Attia Abotabl (San Diego), Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar (San Jose, Calif.) and Huilin Xu (Temecula, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication that support dormant bandwidth part (BWP) configurations that may be used for full-duplex operation. In a first aspect, a user equipment (UE) in a full-duplex mode may, in at least one symbol, receive a downlink signal in a dormant downlink BWP and transm...