US Patent Issued to Samsung Electronics on March 3 for "Apparatus and method for performing beam sweeping using RIS pattern in wireless communication system" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,884, issued on March 3, was assigned to Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd (South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for performing beam sweeping using RIS pattern in wireless communication system" was invented by Donggu Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Woojae Jeong (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Seunghyun Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Jungsoo Jung (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses are provided in which a slot is generated including a symbol and a synchronization signal, which is transmitted through the symbol. The slot is transmitted to a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) and a user equipme...