ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,495, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Receiver assisted directional channel sensing for NR-U" was invented by Yuhang Liu (Lund, Sweden), Jung-Fu Cheng (Fremont, Calif.), Peter Alriksson (Horby, Sweden), Tai Do (Lund, Sweden) and Aliakbar Mirzaei (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first group embodiments provide a method performed by a network node (NN) in a wireless network comprising responsive to a DL data intended for a user equipment (UE), transmitting a first short signal burst to the UE over a channel using a directional beam, and based on detecting a first respon...