ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,761, issued on May 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Real time control of an electronically configurable deflector" was invented by Yehonatan Dallal (Kfar Saba, Israel), Ran Berliner (Kfar-Aviv, Israel) and Shay Landis (Hod Hasharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station may transmit control signaling including a beam shaping configuration to a channel engineering device. The channel engineering device may apply the beam shaping configuration during a time period in which the base station is communicating with a user equipment (UE). ...