ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,906, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for channel access" was invented by Yu Zhang (Haidian District, China), Haipeng Lei (Haidian District, China) and Alexander Golitschek Edler von Elbwart (Darmstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present application are directed to a method and apparatus for channel access. A method according to an embodiment of the present application may include: receiving control information associated with a channel occupancy (CO) initiated by a base station, determining whether the CO can be shared for a physical uplink share...