US Patent Issued to NEC on Nov. 3 for "Transmission apparatus with reflection units including a reconfigurable intelligent metasurface reflecting plate, and transmission method for the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,508, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Transmission apparatus with reflection units including a reconfigurable intelligent metasurface reflecting plate, and transmission method for the same" was invented by Shingo Watanabe (Tokyo), Masakazu Ono (Tokyo) and Kenji Wakafuji (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An amplifier amplifies an input signal. A radiation unit radiates a radio wave into space, based on the input signal amplified by the amplifier. A first reflection unit reflects the radio wave radiated from the radiation unit. A second reflection unit configured as a reconfigurable intelligent metasurface (RIS)...