US Patent Issued to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY on Aug. 5 for "Relay-aided intelligent reconfigurable surfaces" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,616, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Relay-aided intelligent reconfigurable surfaces" was invented by Ahmed Alkhateeb (Chandler, Ariz.), Umut Demirhan (Tempe, Ariz.) and Xiaoyan Ying (Tempe, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Relay-aided intelligent reconfigurable surfaces (IRSs) are provided. A novel relay-aided intelligent surface architecture is described herein that has the potential of achieving the promising gains of IRSs with a much smaller number of elements, opening the door for realizing these surfaces in practice. A half-duplex or full-...