ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,725, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Energy-efficient active reconfigurable intelligent surface with selective amplification" was invented by Navjot Kaur Khaira (Kanata, Canada) and Tejinder Singh (Kanata, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology described herein is directed towards a design and implementation of a subarray of unit cells for an active reconfigurable intelligent surface that is power efficient. The reconfigurable intelligent surface design integrates a switch and a power amplifier in subarrays of unit cells to selectively amplify the reflected signal, resulting in ...