US Patent Issued to Seoul National University R&DB Foundation on Aug. 19 for "Metasurface for smartphone antenna, and smartphone device comprising same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,904, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Seoul National University R&DB Foundation (Seoul, South Korea).

"Metasurface for smartphone antenna, and smartphone device comprising same" was invented by Jungsuek Oh (Incheon, South Korea) and Jaebaek Jung (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A metasurface for a smartphone antenna, according to one embodiment of the present invention, is located between a smartphone cover case and a patch type array antenna, and is characterized by having a two-dimensional grid structure in which a plurality of rectangular openings are formed. The introduction, to a smartphone device, of the met...