ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,509, issued on July 8, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Method for transmission of radio signals between a transmitter device and a wireless transmit-receive unit using a reconfigurable intelligent surface and corresponding device" was invented by Afshin Haghighat (Ile-Bizard, Canada), Mohammad Irfan (Chateauguay, Canada) and Zeeshan Sattar (Montreal).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface devices, RIS, may be used to improve receipt of radio signals received by wireless transmit-receive units, WTRUs, in a given area. In such area, WTRUs may receive radio signals directly...