US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on April 21 for "Network communications between reconfigurable intelligent surfaces" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,735, issued on April 21, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Network communications between reconfigurable intelligent surfaces" was invented by Ahmed Elshafie (San Diego), Yu Zhang (San Diego) and Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) may transmit a capability information message including an indicating that the RIS is capable of participating in network communications and communicating with other RISs on the network. A first RIS may communicate beam information to a sec...