US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on April 15 for "Techniques for communicating using a reconfigurable surface" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,684, issued on April 15, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for communicating using a reconfigurable surface" was invented by Hwan Joon Kwon (San Diego), Saeid Sahraei (San Diego), Hung Dinh Ly (San Diego), Yu Zhang (San Diego) and Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station via a reconfigurable surface, a set of reference signals reflected by the reconfigurable surface using a set of precoder configurations. In some aspects, the set of reference signals are transmit...