US Patent Issued to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES on June 24 for "UE positioning aided by reconfigurable reflecting surfaces such as intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS)" (French, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,384, issued on June 24, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"UE positioning aided by reconfigurable reflecting surfaces such as intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS)" was invented by Frederico Penna (Paris), Daejung Yoon (Massy, France), Stefano Paris (Vanves, France) and Joerg Schaepperle (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "UE positioning is added by use of a reconfigurable reflecting surface (e.g., IRS). The IRS is configured to adjust elements of the surface. The configuration may include signal switching on or off, signal phase, group delay, or signal amplitude. Positioning reference signal tran...