ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,578, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Configured grant channel occupancy time sharing procedure" was invented by Kapil Bhattad (Bangalore, India), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego), Pravjyot Singh Deogun (Bengaluru, India) and Jing Sun (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Configured grant (CG) channel occupancy time (COT) sharing procedure is disclosed. A user equipment (UE) sharing a COT may indicate in the uplink control indicator (UCI) the remaining COT duration, an offset indication identifying where the uplink transmission is expected to end, and a channel access priority class (CAPC) which may be used...