ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,462, issued on July 1, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Network indication of full-duplex capability" was invented by Ahmed Attia Abotabl (San Diego), Hung Dinh Ly (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. Some wireless communications systems may support a network indication of full-duplex capabilities. For example, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a network entity, a capability message indicating that the network entity supports one or more modes of a full-duplex communications scheme. T...