US Patent Issued to Panasonic Industry on May 26 for "Optically transparent radio frequency reflectarray devices for beam redirection and broadening" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,491, issued on May 26, was assigned to Panasonic Industry Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Optically transparent radio frequency reflectarray devices for beam redirection and broadening" was invented by Aykutlu Dana (Palo Alto, Calif.), Ragip A. Pala (Pleasanton, Calif.), Arash Ahmadivand (Pleasanton, Calif.), Asman Tamang (Fremont, Calif.) and Yaroslav A. Urzhumov (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides optically transparent reflectarrays, and methods of constructing and using such reflectarrays."

The patent was filed on Oct. 3, 2023, under Application No. 18/376,403.

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