ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,375, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Reflection direction control system, reflection direction control device, reflection direction control method, and reflection direction control program" was invented by Masashi Iwabuchi (Musashino, Japan), Tomoaki Ogawa (Musashino, Japan), Tomoki Murakami (Musashino, Japan), Riku Omiya (Musashino, Japan) and Yasushi Takatori (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The reflection direction control system includes a plurality of reflection units each including a plurality of reflection elements, a position estimation unit for estimating a position of each of the wireless...