ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,897, issued on March 3, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Reconfigurable intelligent surface forming multiple resonances" was invented by Jungi Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yuntae Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Junhwa Oh (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seungyoon Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sanghyuk Wi (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a 5G communication system or a 6G communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4G communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). A unit cell of a RIS includes a first conductive structure ...