US Patent Issued to Apple on July 22 for "Control information for smart repeater in wireless communication system" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,131, issued on July 22, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Control information for smart repeater in wireless communication system" was invented by Huaning Niu (San Jose, Calif.), Chunxuan Ye (San Diego), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego), Sigen Ye (San Diego), Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.), Weidong Yang (San Diego) and Yushu Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and method for using control information to control the relay of signaling between a base station and a user equipment (UE) using a smart repeater (SMR) and/or reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) are disclosed herei...