ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,056, issued on March 11, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a transmitter node (101) configured to communicate with one or more receiver nodes (102-104) using a re-configurable reflective device. RRD (109), is provided. The RRD (109) is re-configurable to provide multiple spatial filters, each one of the multiple spatial filters being asso...