US Patent Issued to Google on May 6 for "Determining a position of user equipment by using adaptive phase-changing devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,522, issued on May 6, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Determining a position of user equipment by using adaptive phase-changing devices" was invented by Jibing Wang (San Jose, Calif.) and Erik Richard Stauffer (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and apparatuses are described for determining a position of user equipment by using adaptive phase-changing devices. In aspects, a base station transmits wireless signals for a UE toward respective reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) of adaptive phase-changing devices. The APDs may direct reflections of the wireless signals in a direction, ...