ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,642, issued on April 7, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Reference resource for downlink preemption in NR-U" was invented by Bikramjit Singh (Raasepori, Finland), Alexey Shapin (Lulea, Sweden), Ali Behravan (Stockholm) and Mai-Anh Phan (Herzogenrath, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method by a network node in a wireless communication network includes buffering first data for downlink transmission to a first wireless device, and preemptively transmitting the first data on a channel that is subject to clear channel assessment procedures. The first data is transmitted in a reference downlink ...