US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on June 16 for "User equipment capability indication for reconfigurable intelligent surface aided positioning" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,658,980, issued on June 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"User equipment capability indication for reconfigurable intelligent surface aided positioning" was invented by Weimin Duan (San Diego), Jing Lei (San Diego) and Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an aspect, a target UE determines a capability of the target UE associated with reflections of reference signals for positioning (RS-Ps) off one or more reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), and transmits an indication of the determined UE capability. A position estimation entity (e.g., LMF) receives the indication, and configures...