ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,364, issued on June 24, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Full-duplex access points" was invented by Abhishek Pramod Patil (San Diego), George Cherian (San Diego) and Alfred Asterjadhi (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses for implementing full-duplex communications at an access point (AP) without configuring or modifying associated stations (STAs) to operate as full duplex devices. In some implementations, the AP may select at least one of one or more first STAs to transmit uplink (UL) data to the AP, determine a downlink (DL) signal-to-interference-plus-noise r...