ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,796, issued on March 25, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Air-to-ground communication scheduling" was invented by Yiqing Cao (Beijing), Wanshi Chen (San Diego) and Juan Montojo (San Diego).

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 base station associated with a cell of a time division duplex communication system may determine a guard interval that is less than a maximum time delay, based at least in part on a radius of the cell, for air-to-ground communications; and transmit a scheduling configuration to a user equipment that iden...