ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,154, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Methods and systems for managing reflecting surface" was invented by Anusha Gunturu (Karnataka, India) and Ashok Kumar Reddy Chavva (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments herein disclose methods and systems for configuring an reflecting surface. A method by a base station comprises: receiving at least one discovery signal from the reflecting surface; estimating a direction of a panel of the reflecting surface for transmission and reception using at least one spatial information based on the received at least one di...