ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,238,772, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"User equipment configured for semi-static channel occupancy in shared spectrum" was invented by Salvatore Talarico (Los Gatos, Calif.), Sergey Panteleev (Maynooth, Ireland), Debdeep Chatterjee (San Jose, Calif.), Toufiqul Islam (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Yongjun Kwak (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of a user equipment (UE) configurable for unlicensed band operation in a 5G NR system (5GS), when operating in semi-static channel access mode, for a UE-initiated channel-occupancy time (COT), is configured to transmit an uplink (UL) transmissi...