US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on May 19 for "Techniques for distance scanning in a near field region of a reconfigurable intelligent surface" (New Jersey, California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,967, issued on May 19, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for distance scanning in a near field region of a reconfigurable intelligent surface" was invented by Yavuz Yapici (Florham Park, N.J.), Narayan Prasad (Westfield, N.J.), Tao Luo (San Diego) and Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Techniques described herein provide for a network entity to determine a beam focusing distance for a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) for a user equipment (UE) located in the near field region of the RIS. The beam focusing dist...