ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,473, issued on July 22, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for codebook design in communication system" was invented by An Seok Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Heesoo Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Seung Jae Bahng (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jung Sook Bae (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for codebook design in a communication system. A method of a base station may comprise: transmitting a pilot signal to a terminal by using a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS); receiving, from the terminal, channe...