ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,692, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted sensing" was invented by Hyojin Lee (San Diego), Weimin Duan (San Diego) and Yu Zhang (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for wireless sensing. In an aspect, a method for reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted sensing performed by a base station (BS) includes configuring one or more reciprocal RIS beam pairs for sensing, wherein each of the one or more reciprocal RIS beam pairs comprises a downlink (DL) beam having a DL angle of departure (DL AoD) from a RIS controlled by a firs...