US Patent Issued to InterDigital Technology on May 20 for "Method and apparatus for providing and utilizing a non-contention based channel in a wireless communication system" (New York, New Jersey, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,790, issued on May 20, was assigned to InterDigital Technology Corp. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Method and apparatus for providing and utilizing a non-contention based channel in a wireless communication system" was invented by Stephen E. Terry (Northport, N.Y.), Jin Wang (Princeton, N.J.), Arty Chandra (Roslyn, N.Y.), John S. Chen (Ann Arbor Township, Mich.) and Guodong Zhang (Woodbury, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a wireless communication system comprising at least one evolved Node-B (eNB) and a plurality of wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs), a non-contention based (NCB) channel is established, maintained, and utilized. T...