US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Sept. 15 for "Reconfigurable surface training for sidelink" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,986, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Reconfigurable surface training for sidelink" was invented by Ahmed Elshafie (San Diego), Hung Dinh Ly (San Diego) and Yu Zhang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The described techniques provide for beam training a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) for sidelink communications between UEs. A base station may transmit an indication of a resource pool to a receiving UE and a transmitting UE for beam training a RIS. The transmitting UE may identify a resource pattern for training th...