ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,706, issued on May 5, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces with integrated chalcogenide phase-delay elements" was invented by Tejinder Singh (Kanata, Canada), Kan Wang (Ottawa), Navjot Kaur Khaira (Kanata, Canada) and Morris Repeta (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology described herein is directed towards a design and implementation of a unit cell for a reconfigurable intelligent surface/reflectarray by incorporating reconfigurability within a phase-delay element of the unit cell. Reconfigurability is directly incorporated into the unit cell via a variable length pha...