ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,562, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).
"Communicating between nodes in the unlicensed spectrum" was invented by Nuno Manuel Kiilerich Pratas (Gistrup, Denmark), Erika Portela Lopes De Almeida (Aalborg, Denmark), Lars Christensen (Aalborg, Denmark), Jan Hviid (Klarup, Denmark), Stig Blucher Brink (Aalborg Ost, Denmark) and Karsten Petersen (Aalborg, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed at a node is described. In response to receipt of a signal in a channel in the unlicensed spectrum, the node initiates a scan on one of the channels in the unlicensed spectrum to determine whet...