ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,597, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method, apparatus, and system" was invented by Huan Sun (Shenzhen, China) and Xu Li (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method, apparatus, and system are disclosed. The system includes: a reconfigurable intelligent surface, a receiver, and a transmitter configured to send an optical signal to a reconfigurable intelligent surface, wherein the reconfigurable intelligent surface is configured to: detect the optical signal to obtain first target information, modulate the first target information to generat...