US Patent Issued to The Trustees of Princeton University, University of Massachusetts on Feb. 18 for "Reconfigurable metamaterial surface for mmWAVE networks" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,158, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, N.J.) and University of Massachusetts (Hadley, Mass.).

"Reconfigurable metamaterial surface for mmWAVE networks" was invented by Kyle Jamieson (Princeton, N.J.), Kun Woo Cho (Princeton, N.J.), Mohammad Mazaheri (Waterloo, Canada), Jeremy Gummeson (Belchertown, Mass.) and Omid Salehi-Abari (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Use of high frequency waves, such a millimeter waves, in many circumstances is prevented due to their inability to diffract around common obstacles. Disclosed herein is a system and method for transforming an incident ...