US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 15 for "Reflective devices for conveying radio-frequency signals" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,019, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Reflective devices for conveying radio-frequency signals" was invented by Stefan Meyer (Hoechstadt, Germany), Jan Ellenbeck (Gruenwald, Germany), Bertram R Gunzelmann (Koenigsbrunn, Germany) and Norman Goris (Dortmund, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless access point (AP) may communicate with a user equipment (UE) device via reflection off a reflective device having an array of fixed or adjustable reflectors in different orientations. The AP may illuminate different portions of an area by pointing a signal beam to different reflectors and/or by c...