US Patent Issued to Japan Display on May 19 for "Intelligent reflecting surface" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,663, issued on May 19, was assigned to Japan Display Inc. (Tokyo).

"Intelligent reflecting surface" was invented by Daiichi Suzuki (Tokyo), Shinichiro Oka (Tokyo), Shigesumi Araki (Tokyo) and Mitsutaka Okita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, an intelligent reflecting surface includes a plurality of individual areas, each of the individual areas including a first area and one or more second areas, a connection area, a first substrate including a plurality of patch electrodes, a second substrate including a common electrode, the common electrode being located in the first area of each of the individual a...