ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,544, issued on March 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Bandwidth for channel occupancy time sharing" was invented by Giovanni Chisci (San Diego), Jing Sun (San Diego), Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan (San Diego), Vinay Chande (San Diego) and Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects relate to the amount of shared bandwidth to be used for channel occupancy time (COT) sharing. An initiator device may use a clear channel assessment procedure to gain access to wireless communication resources for a COT that will be shared between the initiator device and a responder device. In some examples, the responder...