ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,918, issued on April 8, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for adapting a channel sensing threshold" was invented by Hongbo Si (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for adapting a channel sensing threshold in a wireless communication system operating with shared spectrum channel access. A method for operating a base station (BS) includes determining whether an antenna configuration for channel sensing is omni-directional or directional and determining a channel sensing threshold. The channel sensing threshold includes two parts: a first part of th...