US Patent Issued to Nokia Technologies on Sept. 22 for "Reconfigurable intelligent surface assisted communication" (Finnish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,102, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Reconfigurable intelligent surface assisted communication" was invented by Muhammad Tayyab (Oulu, Finland), Dilin Lalindra Dampahalage (Oulu, Finland), Rapeepat Ratasuk (Naperville, Ill.), Nitin Mangalvedhe (Naperville, Ill.), Muhammad Majid Butt (Naperville, Ill.) and Gilsoo Lee (Naperville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) assisted communication. For example, RIS assisted blockage avoidance for low power internet of things (IoT) devices. An apparatus ...