US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Aug. 26 for "Channel occupancy time (COT) maintenance for sidelink communications in unlicensed bands" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,166, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Channel occupancy time (COT) maintenance for sidelink communications in unlicensed bands" was invented by Chih-Hao Liu (San Diego), Jing Sun (San Diego), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego), Yisheng Xue (San Diego) and Giovanni Chisci (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of wireless communication performed by a first wireless communication device may maintain a channel occupancy time (COT) in a shared frequency band during at least one physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) instance. In some aspects, the method includes transmitting, in a first portion of a C...