US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Dec. 9 for "Downlink transmission configuration for reconfigurable intelligent surfaces" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,821, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Downlink transmission configuration for reconfigurable intelligent surfaces" was invented by Hung Dinh Ly (San Diego), Yu Zhang (San Diego), Saeid Sahraei (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 a configuration for a transmission configuration state for receiving downlink channel transmissions from a base station via a configurable surface. The transmission configuration state may indicate a quasi-co-location source assoc...