ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,585, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Sprint Spectrum LP (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Scheduling full-duplex transmissions in 5G networks" was invented by Akin Ozozlu (McLean, Va.), Noman Alam (Chantilly, Va.), Nagi Mansour (Arlington, Va.) and David Rosen (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Scheduling full-duplex transmissions includes configuring adjacent time slots of an air interface resource with different ratios of uplink portions, downlink portions, and flexible portions, scheduling transmissions in each adjacent time slot based on whether or not the transmissions are latency-sensitive or delay-sensitive or control transmi...