US Patent Issued to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES on Aug. 4 for "Mechanism for sharing channel occupancy time" (Chinese, Finnish, Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,613, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Mechanism for sharing channel occupancy time" was invented by Ling Yu (Espoo, Finland), Vinh Van Phan (Oulu, Finland), Nuno Manuel Kiilerich Pratas (Aalborg, Denmark), Yong Liu (Shanghai), Tao Tao (Shanghai), Naizheng Zheng (Beijing) and Lianghai Ji (Aalborg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to embodiments of the present disclosure, a first device determines one or more second devices to share a channel occupancy time (COT) for a sidelink transmission over an unlicensed spectrum bands. The first device transmits the information which indica...