ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,641, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Channel assessment method and apparatus, communication device, and storage medium" was invented by Yajun Zhu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A channel assessment method includes: performing channel assessment in a shared spectrum, and alternatively, determining a channel resource occupied in the shared spectrum according to an interference condition between communication systems."

The patent was filed on April 29, 2020, under Application No. 17/997,112.

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