ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,219, issued on April 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Measuring backhaul channel of RIS/repeater" was invented by Igor Gutman (Hod HaSharon, Israel) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network node may transmit a signal for a controller associated with at least one RIS/repeater, the signal including a TCI state associated with at least one backhaul channel between the network node and at least one repeater, and obtain a measurement of a reference signal of the at least one backhaul channel based on the signal including the TCI state associated with the at least one backhaul channel. The controller ...