ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,494, issued on July 22, was assigned to HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CANADA Co. LTD. (Kanata, Canada) and la Corporation de l'Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal (Montreal).
"Method and apparatus for wireless transmission, reception and related operations using reconfigurable matrix of elements" was invented by Seyed Ali Keivaan (Montreal), Pascal Burasa (Montreal) and Ke Wu (Montreal).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for wireless communication using a matrix of reconfigurable cells is provided. Each cell has an antenna or antenna port and is reconfigurable to operate as a transmitter, receiver, angle-of-arrival detector or pow...