US Patent Issued to Sharp on May 5 for "User equipment and method for frame-based equipment operation in an unlicensed band" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,859, issued on May 5, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"User equipment and method for frame-based equipment operation in an unlicensed band" was invented by Hai-Han Wang (Taipei, Taiwan) and Chia-Hsin Lai (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A UE and a method for FBE operation in an unlicensed band are provided. The method receives DCI scheduling a PUSCH and indicating that an initiator of a CO of a FFP for the scheduled PUSCH is the UE. The method initiates the CO by transmitting a configured PUSCH within the CO when a DL signal has not been detected within a second FFP before a start time of the configured PU...