US Patent Issued to Lenovo (Beijing) on Sept. 15 for "RIS capability reporting" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,983, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd. (Beijing).

"RIS capability reporting" was invented by Bingchao Liu (Beijing), Chenxi Zhu (Fairfax, Va.) and Haiming Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for RIS capability reporting are disclosed. A method at an RIS device comprises transmitting RIS capability including at least the number of elements in a vertical direction (Nx) and the number of elements in a horizontal direction (Ny), and whether the phase states of all elements in each column can be controlled together; and receiving a reflection coefficients matrix derived based on th...