ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,535, issued on March 17, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Resource exclusion" was invented by Thomas Haaning Jacobsen (Aalborg, Denmark), Renato Barbosa Abreu (Aalborg, Denmark), Nuno Manuel Kiilerich Pratas (Aalborg, Denmark), Timo Erkki Lunttila (Espoo, Finland), Yong Liu (Shanghai) and Jakob Lindbjerg Buthler (Aalborg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, apparatus, and computer readable storage medium for resource exclusion. In a method, an apparatus determines at least one resource block (RB) set where a consistent listen before talking ...