ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,335, issued on May 12, was assigned to SHANDONG UNIVERSITY (Jinan, China).

"Digital twin-based deduction and optimization method and system for intelligent reflecting surface communication system" was invented by Haixia Zhang (Jinan, China), Qiaojian Han (Jinan, China) and Dongfeng Yuan (Jinan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a digital twin-based deduction and optimization method and system for an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) communication system, including: collecting data from a scenario, including relevant data of an IRS physical model and real channel data; performing real-time data transmission on the co...