US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on April 21 for "Near/far-field determination of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) for mobile device positioning" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,707, issued on April 21, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Near/far-field determination of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) for mobile device positioning" was invented by Weimin Duan (San Diego), Jing Lei (San Diego) and Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for determining reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) operation for RIS-assisted position determination of a mobile device in a wireless communications system, according to this disclosure, may comprise determining, for one or more RISs, whether the mobile device is within a near-field operational distance of the R...