ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,134, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Cross-mode scheduling with RIS-aware transmission configuration state" was invented by Saeid Sahraei (San Diego), Yu Zhang (San Diego), Hung Dinh Ly (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 including a first group of transmission configuration states associated with transmission via a configurable surface and a second group of transmission configuration states independent of the configurable surface. The ...