ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,704, issued on March 25, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Resource exclusion in a half duplex based wireless communication system" was invented by Tien Viet Nguyen (Bridgewater, N.J.), Kapil Gulati (Belle Mead, N.J.), Sudhir Kumar Baghel (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Arjun Bharadwaj (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable mediums for wireless communication by a user equipment (UE) includes transmitting a packet on a first resource, determining one or more repetition resources on which to send one or more redundancy versions of the packet, wherein the one or more repetition ...