ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,581, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for performing coexistence operations in wireless spectrums" was invented by Carlos Horacio Aldana (Mountain View, Calif.), Sam Padinjaremannil Alex (Dublin, Calif.), Abhishek Kumar Agrawal (Bellevue, Wash.) and Claudio Da Silva (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for performing listen-before-talk (LBT) operations include a first wireless communication device which schedules a data burst comprising a plurality of chirps for transmitting on a channel to a second device. The wireless communic...