ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,021, issued on May 12, was assigned to HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for receiver assisted transmission in shared spectrum" was invented by George Calcev (Hoffman Estates, Ill.) and Weimin Xiao (Hoffman Estates, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An access node such as a gNB, when determining that a communication channel in a shared spectrum is clear, may send downlink control information (DCI) triggering a user equipment (UE) to measure a resource to determine whether the communication channel is available for the UE. The UE, triggered by the DCI, may measure received energy on resource, gener...