ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,814, issued on April 1, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"COT sharing procedure for configured grants in NR systems operating on unlicensed spectrum" was invented by Jose Armando Oviedo (Cupertino, Calif.), Yingyang Li (Cupertino, Calif.), Salvatore Talarico (Cupertino, Calif.) and Yongjun Kwak (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for a wireless communication system in an unlicensed spectrum. A user equipment (UE) device of the wireless communication system includes a processor circuitry and radio front end circuitry. The processor cir...