US Patent Issued to Apple on Aug. 5 for "Resource allocation for communication via reflective surfaces" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,600, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Resource allocation for communication via reflective surfaces" was invented by Jan Ellenbeck (Grunwald, Germany), Bertram R Gunzelmann (Koenigsbrunn, Germany) and Stefan Meyer (Hochstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller may map user equipment (UE) devices in a wireless system to access points (AP) and reflective intelligent surfaces (RIS). The controller may generate a corresponding communications schedule based on the locations of the UE device(s), AP(s), and RIS(s) and based on current traffic demands. The controller may control the RIS(s), A...