ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,406, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for resource mapping of PDSCH on unlicensed spectrum" was invented by Hongbo Si (Plano, Texas) and Yingzhe Li (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus in a wireless communication system supporting shared spectrum channel access is provided. The method and apparatus comprises: receiving a set of downlink channels supporting the shared spectrum channel access; identifying, a window for SS/PBCH block transmission, a bitmap for SS/PBCH blocks (ssb-PositionsInBurst), and a parameter for QCL as...