US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Oct. 14 for "Reformulating reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) elements based on operation frequency" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,171, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Reformulating reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) elements based on operation frequency" was invented by Ahmed Elshafie (San Diego), Yu Zhang (San Diego) and Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure provide apparatus, methods, processing systems, and computer readable mediums for determining a beamformer to apply to groups of two or more elements of a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS). The beamformer is applied to the groups of elements of the RIS to facilitate communications at the operating fre...