ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,656, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Compensation for an intelligent reflecting surface" was invented by Mehmet Izzet Gurelli (San Diego), Qiang Wu (San Diego), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.), Tao Luo (San Diego), Navid Abedini (Basking Ridge, N.J.) and Ozge Koymen (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for compensating for certain characteristic(s) of an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS). A method that may be performed by a first wireless node includes obtaining an indication of a correction for an IRS to compensate for one or mor...