ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,579, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Reconfigurable intelligent surface codebook" was invented by Narayan Prasad (Westfield, N.J.), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.), Tao Luo (San Diego), Mohammad Ali Tassoudji (San Diego), Yu-Chin Ou (San Diego), Ahmed Bedewy (Hillsborough, N.J.) and Juergen Cezanne (Ocean Township, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a network entity may receive an indication of a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) configuration associated with a first network node and an indication...