ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,224, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Reconfigurable intelligent surface with variable amplification and attenuation including angle of arrival estimation of wireless signals" was invented by Tejinder Singh (Manotick, Canada) and Navjot Kaur Khaira (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 that receives and redirects incoming electromagnetic signals based on power efficient subarrays of unit cells. Each subarray integrates a power amplifier and tunable attenuator device to selectively amplify and/or...