ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,994, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Radio terminal, radio station, and method performed thereby" was invented by Hisashi Futaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radio terminal (3) includes: a wireless transceiver (2001) configured to communicate with one or more radio stations using a licensed frequency and an unlicensed frequency; and at least one processor (2002). The at least one processor (2002) is configured to recognize whether LBT on the unlicensed frequency prior to uplink transmission needs to be performed, start the uplink transmission on the unlicensed frequency after performing the LBT when ...