ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,165, issued on June 30, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Channel access method, terminal device, and network device" was invented by Gen Li (Dongguan, China) and Lei Jiang (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A channel access method, a terminal device, and a network device are provided. The method includes: monitoring a request to send-downlink control channel according to first configuration information of the request to send-downlink control channel; and determining, according to a monitoring result from monitoring the request to send-downlink control channel, whether to perform chan...