US Patent Issued to Nokia Technologies on Feb. 18 for "Apparatus, method, and computer program for scheduling transmissions" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,160, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Apparatus, method, and computer program for scheduling transmissions" was invented by Kari Hooli (Oulu, Finland), Esa Tiirola (Kempele, Finland), Karol Schober (Helsinki) and Timo Lunttila (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include, by an apparatus, sensing at least one beam; initiating a channel occupancy time based on the sensing; transmitting at least one first downlink transmission on the at least one beam during the channel occupancy time, wherein the at least one first downlink transmission on the at least one beam triggers...