US Patent Issued to ZTE on March 3 for "Channel access procedure" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,528, issued on March 3, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Channel access procedure" was invented by Ling Yang (Shenzhen, China), Li Tian (Shenzhen, China) and Yajun Zhao (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are devices, systems and methods for channel access procedures that include a listen-before-talk (LBT) rule for preventing a mismatch between a sensing beam and a transmission beam. In some implementations, a data communication method includes detecting an idle channel by performing, by a communication node, an energy detection operation based on at least one of a transmission beam or a reception b...