US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Sept. 16 for "Maintaining channel occupancy time across sidelink synchronization signal block slots in unlicensed sidelink" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,937, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Maintaining channel occupancy time across sidelink synchronization signal block slots in unlicensed sidelink" was invented by Chih-Hao Liu (San Diego), Giovanni Chisci (San Diego), Jing Sun (San Diego), Yisheng Xue (San Diego), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego), Qing Li (Princeton Junction, N.J.) and Jae Ho Ryu (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. In some cases, a first user equipment (UE) may perform a listen-before-talk (LBT) procedure to identify a channel occupancy time (COT). The COT may incl...