ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,043, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods, architectures, apparatuses and systems for beam management of intelligent reflecting surfaces" was invented by Afshin Haghighat (Ile-Bizard, Canada), Young Woo Kwak (Woodbury, N.Y.), Paul Marinier (Brossard, Canada), Loic Canonne-Velasquez (Dorval, Canada), Moon-il Lee (Melville, N.Y.) and Jonghyun Park (Syosset, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Procedures, methods, architectures, apparatuses, systems, devices, and computer program products are disclosed that may be implemented in a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) that i...