US Patent Issued to Apple on Jan. 27 for "Systems and methods for split control of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,312, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for split control of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces" was invented by Ahmed M Soliman (Munich), Danila Zaev (Munich), Kenza Hamidouche (Cupertino, Calif.), Benedikt Schweizer (Munich), Ayman F Naguib (Cupertino, Calif.), Norman Goris (Dortmund, Germany) and Said Medjkouh (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication system may include a base station (BS), a user equipment (UE) device, a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) having a local controller, and a remote controller. Antenna elements on the RIS may reflect signals b...