ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,922, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Ultrafast reconfigurable intelligent surfaces utilizing phase-change materials" was invented by Tejinder Singh (Kanata, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology described herein is directed towards phase-change material-based (e.g., chalcogenide) radio frequency components that can be used in unit cells of a reconfigurable intelligent surface. A tunable device for reconfigurable operation is described, in which the operational width of phase-change material in the conductive state is controlled to controllably vary the phase shift of each unit ...