US Patent Issued to Sony Group on Jan. 28 for "Angle-of-arrival dependent re-configurable reflective devices" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,392, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Angle-of-arrival dependent re-configurable reflective devices" was invented by Erik Bengtsson (Eslov, Sweden), Jose Flordelis (Lund, Sweden), Fredrik Rusek (Eslov, Sweden), Kun Zhao (Malmo, Sweden) and Olof Zander (Sodra Sandby, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is proposed for operating a re-configurable reflective device, RRD, the RRD being re-configurable to provide multiple spatial filters, each one of the multiple spatial filters being associated with a respective input spatial direction from which incident signals on a data radio channel are accepte...