US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Dec. 16 for "Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) aided round-trip-time (RTT)-based user equipment (UE) positioning" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,474, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) aided round-trip-time (RTT)-based user equipment (UE) 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 positioning. In an aspect, a positioning entity receives a report indicating an operation mode of a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) associated with at least one base station, receives a transmission-to-reception (Tx-Rx) time difference measurement for a network node involved in a round-tri...