ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,087, issued on May 27, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Methods for reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) aided cooperative directional security" was invented by Anantharaman Balasubramanian (San Diego), Shuanshuan Wu (San Diego), Kapil Gulati (Belle Mead, N.J.), Sourjya Dutta (San Diego), Junyi Li (Greentown, Pa.), Navid Abedini (Basking Ridge, N.J.) and Preeti Kumari (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments supporting directional security, a user equipment (UE) may receive from a network device a noise resource allocation including an indication of a noise direction and a noise parameter, gener...