ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,277, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Tone reservation techniques in full-duplex networks" was invented by Ahmed Attia Abotabl (San Diego) and Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The described techniques provide for a network entity or a user equipment (UE), or both, to utilize a set of tones configured for tone reservation (TR) with full-duplex communications. The set of tones may be included in some boundary between, or that overlaps with, uplink and/or downlink resources configured ...