ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,170, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Receiver-side assistance information using multiple uplink transmit opportunities" was invented by Jing Sun (San Diego), Vinay Chande (San Diego), Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan (San Diego), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatuses for sharing a user equipment (UE)-initiated channel occupancy time (COT) with a base station (BS) by transmitting receiver-side assistance information on an uplink shared channel of an unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band. In some aspects, th...