ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,807, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Multiband reflective surface with beam steering and beam splitting functionality" was invented by Tejinder Singh (Kanata, Canada), Kan Wang (Ottawa), Navjot Kaur Khaira (Kanata, Canada) and Morris Repeta (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology described herein is directed towards a multiband unit cell that is part of a reflective surface that can reflect different specific frequencies of impinging electromagnetic waves. The unit cells can have different phase profiles to facilitate beam steering and/or beam splitting functionality, independen...