US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on June 10 for "Techniques for channel occupancy time sharing between a user equipment and a network entity" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,759, issued on June 10, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for channel occupancy time sharing between a user equipment and a network entity" 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: "Aspects of the present disclosure relate to wireless communications, and more particularly, to techniques for channel access for wireless communications, for example, in unlicensed frequency bands. In some cases, a UE may act as an initiating device, initiating access to a wireless channel if it detects a network entity has failed to access a channel during...