ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,612, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).
"Electromagnetic control articles" was invented by Sergei A. Manuilov (Bayport, Minn.), Ivan Lemesh (Minneapolis), Jaewon Kim (Woodbury, Minn.), Joseph B. Eckel (Vadnais Heights, Minn.) and Michael S. Graff (Woodbury, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Articles to control an electromagnetic (EM) radiation in the range of 1 GHz to 100 GHz, and methods of making and using the same are provided. An EM controlling sheet structure includes a dielectric carrier layer and an array of metallic resonant elements supported by the dielectric carrier layer ...