US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Sept. 9 for "Positioning of an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) in a wireless communication network" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,073, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Positioning of an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) in a wireless communication network" was invented by Bapineedu Chowdary Gummadi (Hyderabad, India), Stephen William Edge (Escondido, Calif.) and Binil Francis Joseph (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to embodiments, an example method for positioning an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) using a transmitting device in a wireless communications network may comprise configuring the IRS to reflect a wireless reference signal back to the transmitting device and subsequent to configuring the...