US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on May 13 for "Multiple starting points in relation to a channel occupancy time (COT) for sidelink communication" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,395, issued on May 13, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Multiple starting points in relation to a channel occupancy time (COT) for sidelink communication" 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: "Wireless communications systems and methods related to communicating a sidelink communication among sidelink user equipment devices (UEs) are provided. A UE may determine a first starting point from a plurality of starting points and perform a listen-before-talk (LBT) to contend for a channel occupancy time (COT) beginning at the first starting point. ...