ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,913, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Uplink (UL) transmission in wideband carrier and carrier aggregation in NR systems operating on unlicensed spectrum" was invented by Yingyang Li (Beijing), Yushu Zhang (Beijing), Gang Xiong (Portland, Ore.), Yongjun Kwak (Portland, Ore.) and Lopamudra Kundu (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems and methods for a fifth generation (5G) or new radio (NR) system comprising determining a configuration for an uplink (UL) transmission resource with respect to a listen before talk (LBT) operation on an unlicensed spectrum and transmitting ...