US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Jan. 20 for "Autonomous reconfigurable intelligent surface using antennas and power-dependent switchable rectification mechanism" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,601, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Autonomous reconfigurable intelligent surface using antennas and power-dependent switchable rectification mechanism" 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 based on energy harvesting antennas and associated energy harvesting circuitry. At the same time RIS elements (unit cells) redirect the incoming signals towards a predetermined direc...