US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Aug. 18 for "Operational adaptation for reconfigurable intelligent surface aided positioning" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,713,379, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Operational adaptation for reconfigurable intelligent surface aided positioning" was invented by Weimin Duan (San Diego), Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.) and Jing Lei (San Diego).

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. An example method of wireless communication performed by a base station includes determining a capability of a RIS, determining configuration information for a positioning reference signal, wherein the configuration infor...