ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,120, issued on July 21, was assigned to Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd. (Beijing).

"Controlling a reconfigurable intelligent surface device" was invented by Chenxi Zhu (Fairfax, Va.), Bingchao Liu (Beijing) and Yi Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for controlling a reconfigurable intelligent surface device. One method includes determining a control signal for a reconfigurable intelligent surface device to control a parameter of at least one element of a plurality of elements of the reconfigurable intelligent surface device. The parameter includes information indicating a phase angle. ...