ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,894, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Beam steering and beam shaping in reflective metasurface utilizing linear motion and mechanical actuators" was invented by Tejinder Singh (Kanata, Canada) and Navjot Kaur Khaira (Kanata, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology described herein is directed towards a reconfigurable surface device that reflects an impinging electromagnetic signal, with a phase profile determined by curvature and vertical positioning of a flexible metallic ground plane beneath metallic resonating elements of the reconfigurable surface. The amount of curvature and ...