US Patent Issued to NEC on March 31 for "Reconfigurable intelligent surface, RIS, with sensing capabilities and method for operating the same" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,494, issued on March 31, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Reconfigurable intelligent surface, RIS, with sensing capabilities and method for operating the same" 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 an array of reflective elements. Each reflective element of the array of reflective elements has an antenna element and a phase shifter and is under control of the con...