US Patent Issued to Hongik University Industry-Academia Cooperation Foundation on June 9 for "Quasi-N-bit-quantized reconfigurable metasurface antenna" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,834, issued on June 9, was assigned to Hongik University Industry-Academia Cooperation Foundation (Seoul, South Korea).

"Quasi-N-bit-quantized reconfigurable metasurface antenna" was invented by Jeonghae Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Yonghyun Nam (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A quasi-N-bit-quantized reconfigurable metasurface antenna includes 2N-1 types of first to 2N-1 unit cells configured to operate in different phases, wherein the first to 2N-1 unit cells are each designed to operate in any one phase of two quantized phases according to an electrical control and are each quantized to 1 bit, the first to 2N-1 un...