ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,922, issued on March 24, was assigned to JAPAN DISPLAY INC. (Tokyo).
"Intelligent reflecting surface" was invented by Shigesumi Araki (Tokyo), Shinichiro Oka (Tokyo), Mitsutaka Okita (Tokyo) and Daiichi Suzuki (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an intelligent reflecting surface including a plurality of radio-wave reflecting devices, an adjusting substrate over the plurality of radio-wave reflecting devices, and an anti-reflective film located over the adjusting substrate and configured to absorb radio waves. Each of the plurality of radio-wave reflecting devices includes a pair of substrates and a plurality of radio-...