US Patent Issued to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES on March 31 for "Channel occupancy time sharing for sidelink in unlicensed spectrum" (Chinese, Finnish, Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,356, issued on March 31, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Channel occupancy time sharing for sidelink in unlicensed spectrum" was invented by Lianghai Ji (Aalborg, Denmark), Nuno Manuel Kiilerich Pratas (Aalborg, Denmark), Ling Yu (Espoo, Finland), Vinh Van Phan (Oulu, Finland), Yong Liu (Shanghai) and Tao Tao (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for channel occupancy time (COT) sharing for sidelink (SL) in unlicensed spectrum are provided. One method may include, upon acquiring a COT, an initiating user equipment (UE) transmitting a first indic...