US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on June 10 for "Reconfigurable intelligent surface assisted sidelink ranging" (California, New Jersey, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,698, issued on June 10, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Reconfigurable intelligent surface assisted sidelink ranging" was invented by Shuanshuan Wu (San Diego), Kapil Gulati (Belle Mead, N.J.), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.), Sourjya Dutta (San Diego) and Anantharaman Balasubramanian (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects presented herein may enable one or more wireless devices to perform a sidelink-based ranging and/or positioning with an assistance of an RIS. In one aspect, a first wireless device receives an information indicating at least a time in which at least one RIS is to be activated. The first wirele...