ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,936, issued on June 16.

"Configured grant resource configuration for new radio-unlicensed" was invented by Kapil Bhattad (Bangalore, India), Jing Sun (San Diego), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego) and Ananta Narayanan Thyagarajan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Configurations for configured grant (CG) in new radio unlicensed (NR-U) systems is disclosed. CG configurations may, based on a periodicity, be provided either using a bitmap, shorter periodicity, or resource indicator value (RIV) signaling of start/end symbols, longer periodicity. Such CG configurations configure M sets of time division resource allocations. CG confi...