ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,534, issued on March 17, was assigned to WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Channel access method, device and system in unlicensed band" was invented by Minseok Noh (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Jinsam Kwak (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Juhyung Son (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method, device, and system for adjusting a contention window size for performing channel access. The method includes: receiving uplink scheduling information on the uplink transmission including a new data indicator (NDI) associated with a specific subframe i...