ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,237, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Seed for forwarding device configuration" was invented by Ahmed Elshafie (San Diego), Seyedkianoush Hosseini (San Diego), Yu Zhang (San Diego) and Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a transmitting device (405) selects an indication of a seed to be used by a forwarding device (350), such as a passive device with a reconfigurable intelligent surface, to generate a configuration for reflecting or forwarding signals. The transmitting ...