ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,379, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Notch Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Adjustably transmissive, reflective, and absorptive metamaterials" was invented by Shahriar Khushrushahi (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Wireless devices are commonly carried in fabric-based apparel. Printing metamaterial structures on fabric substrates allows for the ability to create fabric metamaterial layers. A reconfigurable RF based fabric system simply by physically removing or adding different fabric-based metamaterial layers to different regions of the apparel. The fabric-based metamaterial can be used in various filtering applications w...