US Patent Issued to InterDigital Patent Holdings on Sept. 23 for "Method for reporting channel failure" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,890, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Method for reporting channel failure" was invented by Faris Alfarhan (Montreal) and J. Patrick Tooher (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses are described herein for reporting channel failure, and may be used, among others, for New Radio (NR) operation in unlicensed spectrum (NR-U). Upon detecting a consistent uplink (UL) listen-before-talk (LBT) failure or upon detecting a beam failure on a cell, a Scheduling Request (SR) may be triggered to have a UL resource granted for transmission of the failure to another c...