US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Oct. 7 for "Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided UE passive RF sensing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,268, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided UE passive RF sensing" was invented by Weimin Duan (San Diego), Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.) and Seyong Park (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for determining an object's location by using a Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) to aid in RF sensing. Radar techniques can be used in which one or more base stations act as a transmitter and a receiving device acts as a receiver in a bistatic or multi-static radar configuration where an RIS directs signals transmitted by the one ...