US Patent Issued to NXP USA on Dec. 2 for "Reconfigurable intelligent surface architecture with RFID array" (Austrian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,209, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to NXP USA Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Reconfigurable intelligent surface architecture with RFID array" was invented by Sai-Wang Tam (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Peter Thuringer (Graz, Austria), Rui Cao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Franz Amtmann (Graz, Austria), Daniel Lopez-Diaz (Graz, Austria), Yoganathan Sivakumar (Graz, Austria), Ulrich Andreas Muehlmann (Graz, Austria) and Randy Ping Leong Tsang (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scalable reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) includes a plurality of RIS elements. The RIS elements include: a radio frequency identification (RFID) chip that powers...