US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 8 for "Wireless communication using hybrid reconfigurable intelligent surfaces" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,260, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Wireless communication using hybrid reconfigurable intelligent surfaces" was invented by Bertram R Gunzelmann (Koenigsbrunn, Germany), Florian Muhr (Viechtach, Germany) and Mari Kobayashi (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication system may include a wireless base station (BS), a user equipment (UE) device, and a hybrid reconfigurable intelligent surface (HRIS) co-located with the UE device. The HRIS may be used to offload beam management procedures to the BS. Adjustable devices on the HRIS may configure antenna elements of the HRIS to reflect incid...