ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,966, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Receiving node channel assessment" was invented by J. Patrick Tooher (Montreal), Aata El Hamss (Laval, Canada) and Paul Marinier (Brossard, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may receive configuration information that indicates resources on which channel assessments are to be performed. The configuration information may indicate a first set of resources associated with a first subband. The first subband may be associated with a first beam. The configuration information may indicate a second set of re...