ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,376, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Spectrum sensing during initial access to a full-duplex cell" was invented by Navid Abedini (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Yan Zhou (San Diego), Qian Zhang (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus, methods, and computer program products for using spectrum sensing and supporting FD operations are provided. An example method may include performing a spectrum sensing based on a set of resources or a configuration to acquire information about at least one of FD operation or CLI associated with one or m...