ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,485, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Synchronization signal block (SSB) in full-duplex" was invented by Ahmed Attia Abotabl (San Diego), Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar (San Jose, Calif.), Chih-Ping Li (San Diego) and Seyedkianoush Hosseini (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods related to wireless communication systems and transmission and/or reception of synchronization signal block (SSB) transmissions are provided. In some scenarios, communications may occur in one or more full-duplex slots. For example, a wireless communication device receives a synchronization signal block (SSB) trans...