US Patent Issued to Apple on April 29 for "Wireless device initiated channel occupancy in unlicensed spectrum" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,606, issued on April 29, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Wireless device initiated channel occupancy in unlicensed spectrum" was invented by Sigen Ye (Whitehouse Station, N.J.), Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego), Weidong Yang (San Diego), Wei Zeng (San Diego), Hong He (Cupertino, Calif.), Yushu Zhang (Beijing), Haitong Sun (Irvine, Calif.), Huaning Niu (San Jose, Calif.), Chunhai Yao (Beijing) and Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to techniques for a wireless device to initiate channel occupancy in unlicensed spectrum in a wireless communication system. The wireless device...