ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,398, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).
"Communications network and methods with enhanced duplex" was invented by Tomoki Yoshimura (Camas, Wash.), Zhanping Yin (Vancouver, Wash.) and Kenneth James Park (Cathlamet, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless terminal communicates across a radio interface with a radio access network. The wireless terminal comprises receiver circuitry and processor circuitry. The receiver circuitry is configured to receive from the radio access network (1) slot format information comprising transmission direction configuration for each symbol in a slot for an uplink (UL) sub...