ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,817, issued on May 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Pre-emption indication for full duplex communications" was invented by Ahmed Attia Abotabl (San Diego), Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar (San Jose, Calif.), Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.), Wanshi Chen (San Diego), Hung Dinh Ly (San Diego), Huilin Xu (Temecula, Calif.), Tingfang Ji (San Diego), Shimman Arvind Patel (San Diego) and Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A receiving device (such as a user equipment (UE)) may receive from a transmitting device ...