ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,151, issued on July 29, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Shared channel occupancy time operation" was invented by J. Patrick Tooher (Montreal), Aata El Hamss (Laval, Canada), Paul Marinier (Brossard, Canada) and Faris Alfarhan (Montreal).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may monitor LBT subbands to determine when a COT is activated. A WTRU may vary monitoring based on whether the WTRU received a full or partial COT structure. A WTRU may interpret a scheduling grant based on the set of acquired LBT subbands. A WTRU may determine a channel access priority (CAP) a...