US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Feb. 18 for "Channel access for wireless communication" (Virginia, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,172, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Channel access for wireless communication" was invented by Jonghyun Park (Syosset, N.Y.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Hyoungsuk Jeon (Centreville, Va.), Hua Zhou (Vienna, Va.), Yunjung Yi (Vienna, Va.) and Ali Cagatay Cirik (Chantilly, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication device may use a channel access procedure to determine channel availability for signal transmission. The communication device may select a channel access procedure, among a plurality of channel access procedures, based on a beam indication from a base stati...