ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,849, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Metasurface design and placement" was invented by Lili Qiu (Shanghai), Hao Pan (Shanghai), Ruichun Ma (Gaoyou, China) and Shicheng Zheng (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of designing a passive metasurface system within an environment includes receiving a three-dimensional model of the environment including one or more transmitter locations and one or more target locations, and determining one or more metasurface designs and placements to achieve a given objective. The method may also include computing a received signal str...