US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on April 21 for "Reconfigurable intelligent surface aided positioning" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,339, issued on April 21, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Reconfigurable intelligent surface aided 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: "Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication, and specifically for reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided positioning. In some aspects, a base station (BS) may transmit, to a user equipment (UE), a first positioning reference signal (PRS). The BS may transmit, to RIS configured to reflect a received signal towards the UE, a second PRS. The BS may receive, from th...