US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on Jan. 20 for "Coordination of transmit authorization in a shared spectrum environment for 5G or other next generation network" (Texas, New Jersey, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,169, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Coordination of transmit authorization in a shared spectrum environment for 5G or other next generation network" was invented by David Lewis (Freehold, N.J.), Vazrik Hovsepian (Carrollton, Texas), Spyridon Kapoulas (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Rajeev Jayaram (Cedar Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Terminal devices can request and receive authorization to transmit on the same channel for which a serving base station that can serve the terminal devices has authorization to transmit. Upon transmit authorization or termination being received from a spec...