US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on April 7 for "Channel access based on mode of operation" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,641, issued on April 7, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Channel access based on mode of operation" was invented by Siyi Chen (Beijing), Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan (San Diego), Changlong Xu (Beijing), Jing Sun (San Diego) and Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for channel access. One example method by a wireless node generally includes selecting a mode of operation associated with a configuration for communicating with one or more other wireless nodes, determining a procedure for gaining access to a medium to be used for the communication, w...