ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,385, issued on July 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Interference management for reconfigurable intelligent surfaces" was invented by Anantharaman Balasubramanian (San Diego), Shuanshuan Wu (San Diego), Navid Abedini (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Kapil Gulati (Belle Mead, N.J.), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.), Sourjya Dutta (San Diego) and Preeti Kumari (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) or a base station may communicate a set of reference signals on a set of interference measurement resources. The set of interference measure...