US Patent Issued to ZTE on June 3 for "Method and apparatus related to direction-based listen before talk" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,016, issued on June 3, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus related to direction-based listen before talk" was invented by Li Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented are systems and methods for direction-based listen before talk (LBT). A wireless communication device may perform one or more listen-before-talk (LBT) attempts on each of a plurality of beams. Each of the plurality of beams may have a respective beam direction. The wireless communication device may determine a count of failed LBT attempts for at least one of the plurality of beams."

The patent was filed on July 20, 20...