US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Oct. 28 for "Ad hoc intelligent reflecting surface" (California, New Jersey, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,031, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Ad hoc intelligent reflecting surface" was invented by Mehmet Izzet Gurelli (San Diego), Qiang Wu (San Diego), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.), Tao Luo (San Diego), Navid Abedini (Basking Ridge, N.J.) and Ozge Koymen (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for communicating with an ad hoc intelligent reflecting surface (IRS). A method that may be performed by a user equipment includes receiving signals from a network entity via an ad hoc IRS; configuring the IRS for communications between the UE and ...