ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,713,461, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Sounding reference signal based uplink to downlink channel occupancy time sharing" was invented by Jing Sun (San Diego), Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan (San Diego), Vinay Chande (San Diego) and Siyi Chen (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, a grant including information for triggering a clear channel assessment based sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission. The UE may perform the clear channel assessment f...