US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on May 20 for "Techniques for configuring reconfigurable intelligent surfaces in wireless communications" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,936, issued on May 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for configuring reconfigurable intelligent surfaces in wireless communications" was invented by Saeid Sahraei (San Diego), Yu Zhang (San Diego) and Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some aspects described herein relate to receiving, at a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), a first configuration having a time interval for applying the first configuration to reflect signals from a network node, applying the first configuration to multiple antenna elements on the RIS for the time interval, and applying, based on expiratio...