ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,493, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE Co. LTD. (Beijing).
"Slot format indication method and apparatus" was invented by Mingju Li (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A slot format indication method and an apparatus thereof are provided. The method may include: performing Listen Before Talk (LBT) on an active bandwidth part (BWP) in a target serving cell corresponding to a terminal; determining target LBT bandwidth units (LBT BW units), corresponding channels of which are idle, from respective LBT bandwidth units included in the active BWP; and sending downlink control information (DCI) to the termin...