ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,231, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to QUALCOMM Incorproated (San Diego).

"Reconfigurable intelligent surface calibration" was invented by Narayan Prasad (Westfield, N.J.), Navid Abedini (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Tao Luo (San Diego) and Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.).

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 network node may transmit, to a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) controller associated with an RIS, a configuration for applying an RIS pattern. The network node may receive, from a network element, a measurement report indicating r...