US Patent Issued to InterDigital Patent Holdings on Jan. 20 for "Methods for wideband unlicensed channel access" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,351, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods for wideband unlicensed channel access" was invented by J. Patrick Tooher (Montreal), Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego) and Aata El Hamss (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices for addressing wideband unlicensed channel access are disclosed herein. A device may be configured for different types of listen-before-talk (LBT) procedures, where the LBT type may refer to the frequency granularity of the LBT. There may be a hierarchical LBT procedure, where the LBT granularity changes at each point in the LBT pro...