ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,290, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Positioning with user equipment (UE) controlled reconfigurable intelligent device (RID)" was invented by Sourjya Dutta (San Diego), Navid Abedini (Basking Ridge, N.J.) and Kapil Gulati (Belle Mead, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method of positioning of a target UE in a presence of one or more RIDs, the method performed by a server and may comprise receiving, from the target UE, information of the one or more distributed RIDs indicating at least one or more positions of the one or more distributed RIDs, wherein the one or more distributed RIDs are use...