ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,444, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Method and apparatus for radio sidelink operation over shared spectrum" was invented by Rocco Di Girolamo (Laval, Canada), Pascal Adjakple (Great Neck, N.Y.), Kyle Pan (Saint James, N.Y.), Allan Tsai (Boonton, N.J.) and Yifan Li (Conshohocken, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses are described herein to address issues at the MAC layer resulting from potential Listen-Before-Talk (LBT) failures and delayed transmission. For example, a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may monitor a plurality of TX resource pools within...