ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,592, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"User equipments, base stations, and methods for determining a channel occupancy time based on remaining channel occupancy duration" was invented by Toshizo Nogami (Sakai, Japan), Tomoki Yoshimura (Sakai, Japan), Huifa Lin (Sakai, Japan), Wataru Ouchi (Sakai, Japan), Takahisa Fukui (Sakai, Japan), Shoichi Suzuki (Sakai, Japan) and Daiichiro Nakashima (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE may comprise higher layer processing circuitry configured to acquire first radio resource control (RRC) information and second RRC in...