ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,137, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Channel occupancy sharing conditions for beam-based channel access" was invented by Mohammed Ali Mohammed Hirzallah (San Diego), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego) and Rajat Prakash (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for channel occupancy sharing conditions for beam-based channel access. In some aspects, one or more wireless devices may support a beam-based channel access procedure according to which a first wireless device may share a channel occupan...