US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Dec. 2 for "Sidelink reference signal for reconfigurable intelligent surface aided positioning" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,315, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Sidelink reference signal 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: "In an aspect, a relay UE transmits sidelink reference signals for positioning (SL-RS-P) off first and second reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs). The target UE measures the reflected SL-RS-Ps. In an aspect, the SL-RS-Ps may be associated with configurations that are configured by a base station. In an aspect, a position estimation entity may obt...