ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,217, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to ASUSTek Computer Inc. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Method and apparatus for determining channel access in a wireless communication system" was invented by Ko-Chiang Lin (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus are disclosed. In an example from the perspective of a User Equipment (UE), the UE performs a first transmission without Listen Before Talk (LBT), wherein the first transmission is a preamble transmission. The UE performs LBT for a second transmission for a signal other than preamble."

The patent was filed on Jan. 20, 2022, under Application No. 17/580,160.

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