US Patent Issued to Apple on Dec. 2 for "Communications within a user equipment-initiated channel occupancy time" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,306, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Communications within a user equipment-initiated channel occupancy time" was invented by Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego), Huaning Niu (San Jose, Calif.), Hong He (San Jose, Calif.), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Chunxuan Ye (San Diego), Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.) and Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for sharing a user equipment-initiated channel occupancy time."

The patent was filed on May 19, 2022, under Application No. 17/748,884.

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