US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on May 27 for "Beam restriction considerations in presence of a reconfigurable intelligent surface" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,420, issued on May 27, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Beam restriction considerations in presence of a reconfigurable intelligent surface" was invented by Ahmed Elshafie (San Diego), Saeid Sahraei (San Diego), Yu Zhang (San Diego) and Hung Dinh Ly (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects to reduce interferences in presence of a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) are provided. In an aspect, a first device perform a first transmission using a first set of beams of the first device in response to an activated RIS for serving a second device to facilitate communication between the first device and the ...