US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Jan. 20 for "Apparatus and methods for aligning contention-based wireless communications" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,352, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Apparatus and methods for aligning contention-based wireless communications" was invented by Changlong Xu (Beijing), Jing Sun (San Diego) and Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects described herein relate to determining a configuration indicating multiple synchronization points, in time, for contention-based communications, determining, for a given synchronization point of the multiple synchronization points, a contention window using a deterministic function based at least in part on one or more configured parameters, and transmitting, durin...