US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Jan. 20 for "User equipment initiated channel occupancy time in frame based equipment mode" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,354, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"User equipment initiated channel occupancy time in frame based equipment mode" was invented by Changlong Xu (Beijing), Jing Sun (San Diego) and Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine a contention slot in which to initiate a listen-before-talk (LBT) procedure based at least in part on a start time associated with a fixed frame period configured for the UE in a frame based equipment mode. The UE may initiate the LBT...