ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,760, issued on June 10, was assigned to TCL COMMUNI CATI ON ( NINGBO) Co. LTD. (Zhejiang, China).
"Directional channel access sensing" was invented by Umer Salim (Zhejiang, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radio station performs an omni-directional or directional channel access sensing process prior to transmitting, and prior to changing beam direction during a channel occupancy time performs a directional channel access sensing process in the direction of the new beam."
The patent was filed on May 7, 2021, under Application No. 18/001,059.
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