ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,180, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for hybrid automatic repeat request deferral in full-duplex" was invented by Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar (San Jose, Calif.), Abdelrahman Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed Ibrahim (San Diego), Yi Huang (San Diego) and Ahmed Attia Abotabl (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive an indication of conflict conditions for identification of conflicts between uplink feedback messages and a communication frame structure, and may receive a downlink message within ...