US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on Nov. 25 for "Systems and methods for beamforming using an array of phase change materials" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,934, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Systems and methods for beamforming using an array of phase change materials" was invented by Mahsa Salmani (Vaughan, Canada), Sreenil Saha (Longueuil, Canada), Enxiao Luan (Vancouver, Canada) and Armaghan Eshaghi (Aurora, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of beamforming by which a signal is received by a crossbar array of phase change materials (PCM) operative to be modulated electronically to impart complex Cartesian weighting and to retain transmission parameters for future processing. A PCM crossbar array can receive a signal fr...