ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,358, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Channel access method and apparatus" was invented by Peng Liu (Shenzhen, China), Ziyang Guo (Shenzhen, China), Yuchen Guo (Shenzhen, China), Jiajun Luo (Shenzhen, China) and Xun Yang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a channel access method and a channel access apparatus. In an example method, a first node obtains network status information in a target period. The network status information includes a first time segment and a second time segment. The first node inputs the network status information ...