ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,179, issued on July 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Muting and cancelation techniques" was invented by Ahmed Elshafie (San Diego), Ahmed Attia Abotabl (San Diego), Marwen Zorgui (San Diego), Wei Yang (San Diego), Huilin Xu (Temecula, Calif.), Yuchul Kim (San Diego), Linhai He (San Diego) and Wanshi Chen (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A first user equipment (UE) may receive a control message that includes an indication to mute communications between the first UE and a second UE. The indication may be applicable to at least one communicat...