ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,721, issued on June 10, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Flexible downlink-uplink switching time" was invented by Sai Lokesh Ladhagiri Krishnakumar (Hyderabad, India), Hemant Sharma (Hyderabad, India) and Deepak Dowlagar (Warangal, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a configuration of a transmission pattern including a plurality of downlink symbols, one or more uplink symbols, and one or more flexible symbols, wherein the one or more flexible symbols occur before a first of the one or m...