ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,037, issued on March 24, was assigned to Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd (South Korea).

"Methods and devices for channel occupancy time (COT) sharing" was invented by Liang Hu (San Diego), Philippe Sartori (Naperville, Ill.) and Yaser Mohamed Mostafa Kamal Fouad (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided in which a channel occupancy time (COT)-sharing indicator is received, at a first user equipment (UE), from a second UE. The first UE determines whether the first UE is able to use a time-frequency resource within a frequency range indicated by the COT-sharing indicator received from the second UE. In cas...