ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,193, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Hannibal IP LLC.
"Method and apparatus for LBT failure detection" was invented by Hung-Chen Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chie-Ming Chou (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chia-Hung Wei (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Mei-Ju Shih (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for LBT failure detection performed by a UE is provided. The method includes: receiving, by a MAC entity of the UE, an LBT failure indication from a lower layer for all UL transmissions; increasing an LBT failure counter when the MAC entity receives the LBT failure indication; determining an LBT failure event occurs when the LBT failure counter...