ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,686, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Bandwidth part configurations for mixed half duplex and subband full duplex communications" was invented by Qian Zhang (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Yan Zhou (San Diego), Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar (San Jose, Calif.) and Tao Luo (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 user equipment (UE) may receive configuration information indicative of a subband full duplex (SBFD) configuration for communicating, based on a half duplex (HD) configuration at the UE, with a full...