ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,215, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Support for idle period communication in semi-static channel access" was invented by Renato Barbosa Abreu (Aalborg, Denmark), Claudio Rosa (Aalborg, Denmark), Roberto Maldonado (Aalborg, Denmark), Morten Toft (Aalborg, Denmark) and Timo Erkki Lunttila (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are provided measures for enabling/realizing support for idle period communication in semi-static channel access. Such measures exemplarily comprise that a user equipment device monitors for presence of a clearance indication provided by a base station devi...