US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Sept. 23 for "Distance-based channel occupancy time (COT) sharing" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,071, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Distance-based channel occupancy time (COT) sharing" was invented by Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego), Jing Sun (San Diego), Yisheng Xue (San Diego), Chih-Hao Liu (San Diego), Changlong Xu (Beijing) and Ozcan Ozturk (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for distance-based channel occupancy time (COT) sharing. In one aspect, a first device, such as a user equipment (UE), may determine an approximate distance between itself and a second device. The fi...