ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,643, issued on Aug. 5.

"Radio access network (RAN)-centric data collection for new radio (NR)-unlicensed (U)" was invented by Huichun Liu (San Diego), Gavin Bernard Horn (La Jolla, Calif.), Peng Cheng (Beijing), Ozcan Ozturk (San Diego) and Xipeng Zhu (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for wireless communication. In one aspect of the disclosure, a method for wireless communication includes determining, by a user equipment (UE), listen before talk (LBT) information associated with new radio-unlicensed (NR-U) o...