ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,398, issued on April 21, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Channel access coordination for TXOP sharing" was invented by Charlie Pettersson (Solna, Sweden), Dennis Sundman (Sollentuna, Sweden), Miguel Lopez (Aachen, Germany) and Rocco Di Taranto (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Channel access coordination for TXOP sharing An access point of a wireless communication system operates on a primary bandwidth part 5 (Ch2, Ch3) of a medium. This operation on the primary bandwidth part (Ch2, Ch3) is based on carrier sensing to gain access to the primary bandwidth part of the medium. Further, th...