US Patent Issued to Northeastern University on Sept. 9 for "Method and apparatus for over-the-air neural networks via reconfigurable intelligent surfaces" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,992, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Northeastern University (Boston).

"Method and apparatus for over-the-air neural networks via reconfigurable intelligent surfaces" was invented by Kaushik Chowdhury (Needham, Mass.), Yousof Naderi (Brookline, Mass.) and Ufuk Muncuk (Waltham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are systems and methods for implementing an over-the-air neural network (OANN) including by receiving, at a relay receiver of a relay node, a signal of interest from a transmitter, directionally re-transmitting the signal of interest from each of a plurality of relay transmitters of the relay node to a co...