ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,727, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Reporting of preferred subband configurations for full duplex operations" was invented by Yan Zhou (San Diego), Hemant Saggar (San Diego), Qian Zhang (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Tao Luo (San Diego) 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. A user equipment (UE) may transmit a subband full duplex (SBFD) pattern report, indicating a candidate SBFD pattern. The candidate SBFD pattern may indicate a candidate number of downlink or uplink subbands, a number of or location of gu...