ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,715, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Flow control feedback for full-duplex communications" 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 communication are described. The described techniques provide for improving negative acknowledgment (NACK) feedback from a user equipment (UE) to limit self-interference during full-duplex communications with a base station. After failing to receive a downlink transmission from a base station, a UE may generate feedback associated with self...