ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,871, issued on May 26, was assigned to Skyworks Solutions Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Efficient data transmission in unlicensed spectrum" was invented by Dominique Michel Yves Brunel (Antibes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "User equipment and base stations are disclosed. The user equipment comprises a transceiver, at least one processor, and a memory storing instructions that cause the at least one processor to perform operations including receiving uplink scheduling information of a plurality of sub-bands, performing carrier sensing on each of the plurality of sub-bands, determining a transmission frequency band for the uplink tra...