US Patent Issued to InterDigital Patent Holdings on April 8 for "Channel access indication for spectral reuse, power savings and coexistence" (Pennsylvania, California, New Jersey, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,917, issued on April 8, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Channel access indication for spectral reuse, power savings and coexistence" was invented by Lakshmi R. Iyer (King of Prussia, Pa.), Qing Li (Princeton Junction, N.J.), Joseph M. Murray (Schwenksville, Pa.), Mohamed Awadin (San Diego), Guodong Zhang (Woodbury, N.Y.), Pascal M. Adjakple (Great Neck, N.Y.) and Allan Y. Tsai (Boonton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Channel Access Indicator (CAI) may be employed in New Radio Unlicensed (NR-U) to indicate channel occupation by a node to nodes outside its cell, indicate channel occupation ...