ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,028, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Apparatuses and methods for duplex operation" was invented by Carmela Cozzo (San Diego), Marian Rudolf (Longueuil, Canada) and Aristides Papasakellariou (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for duplex operation in a wireless communication system. A method for operating a user equipment (UE) includes receiving, for a cell, first information indicating first slots with uplink (UL), downlink (DL), or flexible (F) symbols associated with a first bandwidth (BW) and second information indicating second slots with UL, DL...