ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,645, issued on July 7, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Managing conflicting configurations for configuring a reflective surface" was invented by Ahmed Elshafie (San Diego), Yu Zhang (San Diego) and Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A surface used to reflect radio frequency signals may receive requests from multiple devices to configure a set of reflection coefficients. Each request may include a set of reflection coefficients and an indication of a priority level of communications associated with the set of reflection ...