ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,734, issued on April 21, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Codebook generation for precoding reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) elements" was invented by Ahmed Elshafie (San Diego), Yu Zhang (San Diego), Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli (San Diego) and Hwan Joon Kwon (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques, methods, devices, systems, and non-transitory computer readable medium for generating codebooks for reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) s. For example, a RIS controller generates a codebook for a RIS by computing weights using a discrete Fourier transform (DFT...