ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,219, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Reconfigurable intelligent surface beamforming" was invented by Mohammad Khojastepour (Lawrenceville, N.J.) and Nariman Torkzaban (College Park, Md.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Reconfigurable surfaces and methods for configuring surfaces include measuring properties of one or more incident signals at a configurable cell of a surface. A beam forming pattern for the surface is determined based on the measured properties of the one or more incident signals. Parameters of the configurable cell are set to implement the beam forming pattern in the surface."
The patent was filed ...