US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on May 27 for "Method and apparatus for continuous channel reservation for sidelink communication" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,316, issued on May 27, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Method and apparatus for continuous channel reservation for sidelink communication" was invented by Yisheng Xue (San Diego), Jing Sun (San Diego), Chih-Hao Liu (San Diego) and Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may obtain a channel occupancy time (COT) in an unlicensed frequency spectrum band. The COT may include an initial time interval for an initial transmission and a subsequent time interval for a subsequent transmission. In the initial time interval...