US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Sept. 30 for "Techniques for successive tuning using a reconfigurable surface" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,988, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for successive tuning using a reconfigurable surface" was invented by Saeid Sahraei (San Diego), Yu Zhang (San Diego), Hung Dinh Ly (San Diego), Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli (San Diego) and Hwan Joon Kwon (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may be configured to transmit, to a base station via a reconfigurable surface at a first transmission occasion, a first reference signal associated with a first reflection matrix configuration used by the reconfigurable su...