US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM Incorproated on Sept. 15 for "Initial access for reconfigurable intelligent surface assisted communication in the absence of reciprocity" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,980, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to QUALCOMM Incorproated (San Diego).

"Initial access for reconfigurable intelligent surface assisted communication in the absence of reciprocity" was invented by Saeid Sahraei (San Diego), Yu Zhang (San Diego), Hung Dinh Ly (San Diego) and Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station and via a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), a synchronization signal block (SSB) corresponding to a first SSB type configured fo...