ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,728, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (South Korea).

"Subband operation for cross division duplex technology" was invented by Mohamed Mokhtar Gaber Moursi Awadin (San Diego), Jung Hyun Bae (San Diego) and Mohammed Karmoose (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method are provided for performing a subband operation for cross division duplex (XDD) technology to enhance coverage in wireless communication systems. A method includes identifying, by a user equipment (UE), an uplink (UL) or downlink (DL) subband configuration provided from a gNB to the UE, and determining a priority betwee...