ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,577, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to HTC Corp. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Communication device and communication method" was invented by Ta-Chun Pu (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Chun-Yih Wu (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Yen-Liang Kuo (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication device includes a sheet structure. The sheet structure includes a plurality of metal units and a plurality of interconnection units. The interconnection units are coupled to the metal units, and are interleaved with the metal units. The interconnection units are controlled according to a plurality of control signals. In response to a first incident wave, the sheet s...