US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on March 4 for "Channel occupancy time (COT) structure indication" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,274, issued on March 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Channel occupancy time (COT) structure indication" was invented by Jing Sun (San Diego), Ananta Narayanan Thyagarajan (Bangalore, India), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego) and Kapil Bhattad (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for a user equipment (UE), operating in a shared spectrum in a connected state or an idle state, to receive a channel occupancy time structure information (COT-SI) which includes one or more of a COT duration, a COT end symbol, and a COT pause indication, in addition to slot format ind...