US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on May 26 for "Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) aided non-terrestrial network (NTN) user equipment (UE) positioning" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,811, issued on May 26, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) aided non-terrestrial network (NTN) user equipment (UE) positioning" was invented by Weimin Duan (San Diego), Huilin Xu (Temecula, Calif.), Jing Lei (San Diego), Lianghai Ji (San Diego) and Jun Ma (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems, apparatuses, processes, and computer-readable media for wireless communications. For example, an example of a process may include a RIS that can receive, from a satellite, a positioning reference signal. The RIS can further reflect the positioning reference signal to prod...