ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,838, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Cooperative communication in a wireless network" was invented by Mohamed Kamoun (Boulogne Billancourt, France) and Juan Carlos Bucheli Garcia (Boulogne Billancourt, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A receiving network node includes a first antenna array, one or more radio frequency components, one or more configurable loads, a switch, and a first control circuit. The first control circuit obtains instruction data for configuring the first antenna array from a transmit-receive mode to a scattering mode. The first control circuit configures the ...