ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,161, issued on July 29, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).
"Re-configurable repeater device including beam-shaping unit" was invented by Erik Bengtsson (Eslov, Sweden), Kun Zhao (Malmo, Sweden), Jose Flordelis (Lund, Sweden), Olof Zander (Sodra Sandby, Sweden) and Fredrik Rusek (Eslov, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A re-configurable repeater device-such as a large intelligent surface or an amplify-and-forward repeater-includes an array of reflective elements and a beam-shaping unit in front of the array. The beam-shaping unit is configured to increase a beam diameter of an incoming beam. For instance, the divergence of...