ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,309, issued on June 23, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for predictive resource allocation in unlicensed band" was invented by Shoufeng Wang (Beijing), Junyi Yu (Beijing), Nan Cao (Beijing), Wenjing Zhou (Beijing), Jiankang Wang (Beijing) and Xiaohui Yang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network node and a method performed by the network node are provided. According to an embodiment, a method performed by a network node is provided. The method comprises obtaining prediction information on an availability of an unlicensed band based on historical data of the unlicens...