Mari Kobayashi

Title: Mari Kobayashi and Wireless Communication Using Hybrid Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces.

Introduction

Mari Kobayashi is an inventor associated with Munich, Germany, and Apple Inc. Her patent work concerns wireless communication systems that use hybrid reconfigurable intelligent surfaces to support beam management.

Latest Patents

Kobayashi is associated with one patent, titled “Wireless Communication Using Hybrid Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces.” The invention describes a communication system involving a wireless base station, user equipment, and a hybrid reconfigurable intelligent surface located with the user equipment.

Adjustable devices on the surface can configure its antenna elements to reflect signals from the base station or receive them through a receiver. The system can use time-, spatial-, or power-domain multiplexing, and the user equipment can control switching between these schemes and adjust how much of the incident signal is reflected or received over time. The surface can assist with beam acquisition and tracking between the base station and user equipment, helping reduce resource consumption on the user equipment.

Career Highlights

The available information identifies Kobayashi as an inventor associated with Apple Inc. and lists one patent in her name. The patent focuses on coordinating reconfigurable surface behavior with wireless beam management.

Collaborations

Kobayashi’s listed coworker is Florian Muhr. The patent description also outlines cooperation among the base station, user equipment, and hybrid reconfigurable intelligent surface as parts of the communication system.

Conclusion

Mari Kobayashi’s listed patent presents a hybrid reconfigurable intelligent surface approach to wireless beam acquisition and tracking, with the goal of reducing resource demands on user equipment.