ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,904, issued on May 13, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Liquid crystal metasurface antenna apparatus and communication apparatus" was invented by Chuanan Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Kun Zeng (Chengdu, China) and Yinggang Du (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a liquid crystal metasurface antenna apparatus and a communication apparatus. The liquid crystal metasurface antenna apparatus includes a liquid crystal metasurface reflection plate and a feed source, where the liquid crystal metasurface reflection plate includes a plurality of liquid crystal antenna units; the l...