ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,942, issued on June 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Peer-to-peer sensing assisted by reconfigurable intelligent surfaces" was invented by Yucheng Dai (San Diego), Wooseok Nam (San Diego) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. In some aspects, the apparatus may be a user equipment (UE) or a component thereof; however, in some other aspects, the apparatus may be a base station or a component thereof. The apparatus may be configured as a wireless node that configures an intermediary apparatus to reflect signa...