US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on July 21 for "Clustering of RIS elements" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,424, issued on July 21, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Clustering of RIS elements" was invented by Ahmed Elshafie (San Diego) and Yu Zhang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A configuration for clustering of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) elements. The apparatus receives, from an RIS controller, a cluster configuration of a RIS comprising a plurality of clusters. The apparatus performs a beam training procedure on the plurality of clusters of the RIS. The beam training procedure including transmission of a sequence of a plurality of reference signals to each cluster of the plurality of clusters. The appa...