US Patent Issued to InterDigital Patent Holdings on Dec. 9 for "Channel usage indication and synchronization for LTE operation in unlicensed bands" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,373, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Channel usage indication and synchronization for LTE operation in unlicensed bands" was invented by Pouriya Sadeghi (San Diego), Janet A. Stern-Berkowitz (Little Neck, N.Y.), Moon-Il Lee (Melville, N.Y.), J. Patrick Tooher (Montreal) and Marian Rudolf (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed for LTE operation in an unlicensed spectrum (LTE-U). A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may establish a connection with a first cell on a licensed frequency band. The WTRU may receive a first down...