ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,238,775, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Beam specific channel sensing failure" was invented by Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego), Ozcan Ozturk (San Diego) and Jing Sun (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication that support beam specific channel sensing. In a first aspect, a method of wireless communication includes performing a channel sensing operation prior to transmitting a first transmission via a first beam of a plurality of beams. The method also includes determining a beam specific channel sensing failure for the first beam ba...