US Patent Issued to Charter Communications Operating on Dec. 30 for "Methods and apparatus for supporting sidelink channel sharing in unlicensed spectrum" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,706, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).

"Methods and apparatus for supporting sidelink channel sharing in unlicensed spectrum" was invented by Amitav Mukherjee (Elk Grove, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first wireless communications device, e.g., a first UE, shares a second portion, e.g., a remaining unused portion, of its sidelink (SL) channel occupancy time (COT), corresponding to unlicensed spectrum, with a second wireless communications device. The first wireless communications device communicates SL COT sharing information to the second wireless communications device via...