US Patent Issued to NEC on July 28 for "Fully-passive and fast-programmable smart surface" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,187, issued on July 28, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Fully-passive and fast-programmable smart surface" was invented by Marco Rossanese (Heidelberg, Germany), Placido Mursia (Heidelberg, Germany), Andres Garcia-Saavedra (Heidelberg, Germany), Vincenzo Sciancalepore (Heidelberg, Germany) and Xavier Costa-Perez (Heidelberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reflective device includes a control element, and a reflective surface with a plurality of reflective elements. Each reflective element of the plurality of reflective elements includes an antenna element and a phase shifting arrangement and is under control of the cont...