US Patent Issued to Spreadtrum Communications (Shanghai) on April 7 for "Method and apparatus for downlink LBT, device and storage medium" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,639, issued on April 7, was assigned to Spreadtrum Communications (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Method and apparatus for downlink LBT, device and storage medium" was invented by Meng Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for downlink LBT is provided in the present disclosure. The method includes: detecting channel energy and uplink transmission energy within a monitoring period; determining a channel state within the monitoring period according to the channel energy and the uplink transmission energy; and performing downlink data transmission when the channel state is an idle state."

The patent was filed on Oct....