ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,582, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).
"Reconfigurable intelligent surface" was invented by Xiang Li (Beijing), Xin Wang (Beijing), Xiaolin Hou (Beijing), Lan Chen (Beijing) and Satoshi Suyama (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a reconfigurable intelligent surface, including: a receiving unit which receives subarray division setting information sent from a base station; a reconfigurable panel; and a processing unit, which divides, based on the subarray division setting information, the reconfigurable panel into M subarrays, where M is a positive integer greater than 1, wherei...