US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Sept. 9 for "UE positioning in the presence of an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,932, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"UE positioning in the presence of an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)" was invented by Bapineedu Chowdary Gummadi (Hyderabad, India), Stephen William Edge (Escondido, Calif.) and Binil Francis Joseph (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to embodiments, an example method of positioning a user equipment (UE) by a location server in a wireless communications network, the method may comprises receiving a request to perform positioning of the UE and receiving a notification from a first base station indicating that a transmission path between th...