ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,087, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Channel access procedure for SL transmission over unlicensed band" was invented by Kyeongin Jeong (Allen, Texas), Hongbo Si (Plano, Texas), Emad N. Farag (Flanders, N.J.) and Nishithkumar D. Tripathi (Parker, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for a channel access in a wireless communication systems. A method of a UE in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: determining whether, for a first time duration, a channel is sensed as an idle state for a channel access procedure; occupying the channel for...