ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,424, issued on May 27, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Centralized beam determination for full duplex communications" was invented by Yan Zhou (San Diego) and Hemant Saggar (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for centralized beam determination for full duplex (FD) communications. An example method, performed by a wireless node, includes obtaining at least one report indicating information regarding candidate beams, selecting, from the candidate beams, a pair of beams based on the information, and outputting, for transmission, signaling indicating that at l...