US Patent Issued to Purplevine Innovation on Oct. 14 for "Channel access method, user equipment, and base station" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,067, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Purplevine Innovation Co. Ltd. (Hong Kong).

"Channel access method, user equipment, and base station" was invented by Chun-Che Chien (Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) executes a semi-static channel access method during a random access procedure in an unlicensed band. A base station transmits configuration information and downlink (DL) information to the UE in a fixed frame period (FFP) according to a set of FFP parameters associated with the base station. The UE determines whether to initiate a channel occupancy time (COT) in an FFP according to a set of FFP parame...