ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,234, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Mode division duplex for orbital angular momentum communications" was invented by Min Huang (Beijing), Yu Zhang (San Diego), Chao Wei (Beijing) and Hao Xu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first wireless communication device may transmit, in a time-frequency resource occasion to a second wireless communication device, a first orbital angular momentum (OAM) signal in a first OAM mode. The first wireless communication device may receive, in the time-frequency ...