US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on Nov. 11 for "Location accuracy via intelligent reflecting surfaces" (California, Florida, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,052, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Location accuracy via intelligent reflecting surfaces" was invented by Ardalan Alizadeh (Milpitas, Calif.), Sivadeep R. Kalavakuru (Milpitas, Calif.), Matthew Aaron Silverman (Shaker Heights, Ohio) and John Matthew Swartz (Lithia, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, the techniques described herein relate to a method including: determining a series of predetermined phases for wireless signals to be used in location calculations for a station device accessing a wireless access point; reflecting wireless signals from the wireless access p...