ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,196, issued on July 22, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"NR-unlicensed transmission opportunity structure with flexible starting point" was invented by Jing Sun (San Diego), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego), Taesang Yoo (San Diego), Tamer Kadous (San Diego), Yongbin Wei (La Jolla, Calif.) and Aleksandar Damnjanovic (Del Mar, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "New radio (NR) transmission opportunity (TxOP) structure having flexible starting points are disclosed for wireless communications. When a typical listen before talk (LBT) procedure is performed, the transmitting node will not know ahead of time when the LBT will pass and...