ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,722, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to KYMETA Corp. (Redmond, Wash.).
"Active metasurfaces" was invented by Mohammad Ranjbarnikkhah (Redmond, Wash.), Mohammad Mahdi Honari Kalateh (Redmond, Wash.) and Mohsen Sazegar (Redmond, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Active metasurface antennas and methods for using the same are disclosed. In some embodiments, the metasurface has a plurality of tunable radiating antenna elements, and each tunable radiating antenna element of the tunable radiating antenna elements comprises a tuning element configured to tune each tunable radiating antenna element and an amplifier coupled in parallel to t...