ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,362, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Self-powered autonomous reconfigurable intelligent surfaces using wide radio frequency power range harvesting circuit" was invented by Navjot Kaur Khaira (Manotick, Canada) and Tejinder Singh (Manotick, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology described herein is directed towards a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) that harvests RF energy from incoming signals. In one implementation, there are two types of RIS elements (unit cells), one type engineered to capture and wirelessly harvest energy from incoming electromagnetic waves, while th...