ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,577, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Channel sensing" was invented by Claudio Rosa (Randers NV, Denmark), Nuno Manuel Kiilerich Pratas (Gistrup, Denmark), Olli Alanen (Vantaa, Finland), Mika Kasslin (Espoo, Finland), Adrian Garcia Rodriguez (Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain) and Lorenzo Galati Giordano (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprising: at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program code; the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to perfo...