ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,095, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Universitetet i Agder (Kristiansand, Norway).

"Reflector for reflecting electromagnetic waves from a rotating electromagnetic wave source" was invented by Atle Aalerud (Arendal, Norway) and Joacim Dybedal (Kristiansand, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reflector for reflecting electromagnetic waves from a rotating electromagnetic wave source comprises a reflective screen shaped as a hollow truncated cone having a top at the truncated end and a base, where the radius of the top is smaller than the radius of the base. The hollow truncated cone comprises a plurality of trapezoid shaped segmen...