US Patent Issued to INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE on March 17 for "Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) antenna and RIS antenna unit" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,610, issued on March 17, was assigned to INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) antenna and RIS antenna unit" was invented by Chiung-Hsiung Chen (Jhudong Township, Taiwan), Jiun-Jang Yu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Chu-Hung Li (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) antenna includes an RIS antenna body and a bias circuit. The RIS antenna body includes a plurality of RIS antenna units. The bias circuit is electrically coupled to the RIS antenna units of the RIS antenna body. Each RIS antenna unit includes: a metal patt...