ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,138, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).
"Incrementing a transmission counter in response to LBT failure" was invented by Joachim Loehr (Wiesbaden, Germany), Alexander Johann Maria Golitschek Edler von Elbwart (Darmstadt, Germany) and Ravi Kuchibhotla (Chicago).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for counter handling in case of LBT failure. One apparatus includes a transceiver and a processor that performs a Listen-Before-Talk ("LBT") procedure for a transmission and detects LBT failure for the transmission. The processor determines whether a medium ac...