US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies, Southern University of Science and Technology on Sept. 16 for "Electromagnetic wave control apparatus" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,834, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China) and Southern University of Science and Technology (Shenzhen, China).

"Electromagnetic wave control apparatus" was invented by Yanjun Liu (Shenzhen, China), Rui Guo (Shenzhen, China), Tenghao Li (Shenzhen, China), Mengjia Cen (Shenzhen, China) and Jiawei Wang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electromagnetic wave control apparatus includes an upper electrode layer, a lower electrode layer, a liquid crystal layer, and a first metamaterial layer disposed between the upper electrode layer and the lower electrode layer. The first meta...