US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on March 18 for "Enhanced clear channel assessment for shared radio frequency spectrum band" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,230, issued on March 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Enhanced clear channel assessment for shared radio frequency spectrum band" was invented by Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan (San Diego) and Aleksandar Damnjanovic (Del Mar, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station may transmit to a user equipment (UE) a control signal comprising a grant for a downlink transmission. The base station may perform, during a gap between the control signal and the downlink transmission, a clear channel assessment (CCA) procedure on a shared radio frequency s...