MUMBAI, India, March 15 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202417012375 A) filed by Interdigital Patent Holdings Inc., Wilmington, U.S.A., on Feb. 21, for 'sidelink operation in unlicensed spectrum.'

Inventor(s) include Pan Kyle; Zhang Guodong; Adjakple Pascal; Svedman Patrick; and Li Yifan.

The application for the patent was published on March 15, under issue no. 11/2024.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Methods, systems, and. devices may assist in new radio (NR) sidelink (SL) operation in licensed or unlicensed spectrum. In an example, if listen-before-talk (LBT) failure rate is low, then implicit acknowledgement (ACK) and explicit non-acknowledgement (NACK) may be ...