US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Jan. 13 for "Uplink and downlink RIS-aided signaling" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,104, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Uplink and downlink RIS-aided signaling" was invented by Weimin Duan (San Diego), Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.) and Hung Dinh Ly (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A signal reporting method includes: transmitting, from a first wireless signaling device at a first time, a first PRS (positioning reference signal) to a second wireless signaling device via a first RIS (reconfigurable intelligent surface); receiving, at the first wireless signaling device at a second time, a second PRS from the second wireless signaling device via a second RIS that is ph...