ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,478, issued on July 22, was assigned to Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Mumbai, India).
"Systems and methods for meta-surface-based beamforming" was invented by Arunkumar Kalimuthu Rameshwaran (Bengaluru, India), Tapas Chakravarty (Kolkata, India), Achanna Anil Kumar (Bengaluru, India), Poornima Surojia (Hyderabad, India), Roshan Khobragade (Hyderabad, India) and Lakshmi Narayana Meda (Bengaluru, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Beamforming is a vital component in space division multiple access (SDMA) and currently employed sectorial beamforming that radiates throughout sector(s) is not sufficient for next generation communicatio...