ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,915, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Apparatuses and methods for uplink transmission in frame-based equipment (FBE) operation" was invented by Chiou-Wei Tsai (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Timothy Perrin Fisher-Jeffes (San Jose, Calif.) and Chun-Hsuan Kuo (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method executed by a User Equipment (UE) operating in a Frame-Based Equipment (FBE) mode is provided. The method includes the following steps: determining a starting time and a periodicity of a first Fixed Frame Period (FFP) of a cell on an operating channel of an unlicensed band; determining a starting time...