ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,366, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for interference measurement reporting for receiver-assisted channel access" was invented by Giovanni Chisci (San Diego), Jing Sun (San Diego), Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan (San Diego), Vinay Chande (San Diego), Tao Luo (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 for receiver-assisted channel access in shared radio frequency spectrum. A receiver, such as a user equipment (UE) may transmit a measurement report to a transmitter, such as an access network entity...