ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,984, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Device positioning with reconfigurable intelligent surfaces" was invented by Benedikt Schweizer (Munich), Danila Zaev (Munich), Firouz Behnamfar (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Ayman F Naguib (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication system may include a transmitting (TX) device, a receiving (RX) device, and a one or more reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS's). The TX device may transmit a wireless signal received by the RX device over multiple propagation paths including paths that reflect off the RIS(s) and paths that include other reflect...