ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,170, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to JIO PLATFORMS Ltd. (Ahmedabad, India).

"System and method for sharing intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) in networks" was invented by Satish Nanjunda Swamy Jamadagni (Bangalore, India), Mahesh Nayaka Mysore Annaiah (Bangalore, India), Mathew Oommen (Mumbai, India), Pradeep Krishnamurthy Hirisave (Bangalore South, India), Vinay Shrivastava (Bangalore, India) and Surabhi Karandikar (Nagpur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiment of network device includes one or more processors coupled to a memory storing a set of instructions which when executed by the one or more processor...