US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Sept. 8 for "Beam acquisition for a reconfigurable intelligent surface" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,233, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Beam acquisition for a reconfigurable intelligent surface" was invented by Saeid Sahraei (San Diego), Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli (San Diego), Yu Zhang (San Diego) and Hung Dinh Ly (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems, a base station may communicate with a user equipment (UE) via a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) which is capable of adjusting a reflection characteristic to reflect incident signaling in different directions. The base station and the RIS may establish a ...