ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,606, issued on May 20, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method and apparatus for performing transmission" was invented by Lei Jiang (Beijing), Hongmei Liu (Beijing), Chuangxin Jiang (Beijing) and Gang Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method of performing transmission between a base station and a terminal device according to a frame structure over an unlicensed spectrum in a wireless network that supports communications over both a licensed spectrum and the unlicensed spectrum. The method comprises signaling information indicating the frame structure and performing transmi...