US Patent Issued to InterDigital Patent Holdings on July 1 for "Methods for contention window size adjustment in unlicensed spectrum" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,319, issued on July 1, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods for contention window size adjustment in unlicensed spectrum" was invented by Aata El Hamss (Laval, Canada), J. Patrick Tooher (Montreal), Shahrokh Nayeb Nazar (San Diego) and Afshin Haghighat (Ile-Bizard, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and apparatuses for communication over an unlicensed band are provided herein. A method may comprise transmitting transport blocks in each slot of a plurality of slots and determining a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) status for each of the transmitted transport blocks. The method ...