ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,991, issued on May 27, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Metasurface enabled in-vehicle link enhancement" was invented by Sourjya Dutta (San Diego), Shailesh Patil (San Diego), Qing Li (Princeton Junction, N.J.), Kapil Gulati (Belle Mead, N.J.) and Gene Wesley Marsh (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, an apparatus of a vehicle may include one or more meta-surfaces disposed on one or more glass surfaces of the vehicle. The one or more meta-surfaces may be configured to redirect electromagnetic waves incident on the on...