US Patent Issued to British Telecommunications on Nov. 4 for "RIS-assisted wireless communications" (Chinese, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,693, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to British Telecommunications PLC (London).

"RIS-assisted wireless communications" was invented by Linglong Dai (Beijing), Ruochen Su (Huaibei, China), Jingbo Tan (Beijing), Mo Hao (Beijing) and Richard Mackenzie (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reflective surface for directing wireless communications signals that includes a plurality of independently reconfigurable elements disposed irregularly on the surface is disclosed. A method of controlling a communication channel of a wireless communication system that includes the reflective surface having an irregular element arrangement is also di...