US Patent Issued to Apple on Feb. 3 for "Sidelink control information (SCI) in new radio (NR) unlicensed" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,220, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Sidelink control information (SCI) in new radio (NR) unlicensed" was invented by Huaning Niu (San Jose, Calif.), Chunxuan Ye (San Diego), Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego), Yushu Zhang (Beijing), Hong He (San Jose, Calif.), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Weidong Yang (San Diego), Wei Zeng (San Diego) and Sigen Ye (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE), including a vehicle to everything (V2X) device, a baseband processor or other network device can operate in an unlicensed network to acquire a channel occupancy time (COT) for sidelink (SL) tran...