ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,290, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for sharing channel occupancy time" was invented by Wensu Zhao (Beijing) and Qun Zhao (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for sharing a channel occupancy time (COT) is applied to a sidelink unlicensed frequency band of terminal devices and is performed by a first terminal device. The method includes: sending first shared COT information to a second terminal device; in which the first terminal device is a terminal device for initiating the COT, and the second terminal device is a terminal device with which the ...