ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,132, issued on July 21, was assigned to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Large intelligent surfaces with sparse channel sensors" was invented by Ahmed Alkhateeb (Chandler, Ariz.), Abdelrahman Taha (Tempe, Ariz.) and Muhammed Alrabeiah (Tempe, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Large intelligent surfaces (LISs) with sparse channel sensors are provided. Embodiments described herein provide efficient solutions for these problems by leveraging tools from compressive sensing and deep learning. Consequently, an LIS architecture based on sparse channel sensors is provided where all LIS e...