US Patent Issued to Telecom Italia on Sept. 1 for "Electronic device comprising a metasurface" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,257, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Telecom Italia S.p.A. (Milan).

"Electronic device comprising a metasurface" was invented by Gabriele Elia (Turin, Italy), Antonio Manzalini (Turin, Italy) and Paolo Snidero (Latina, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes a metasurface for intercepting electromagnetic radiation, the metasurface comprising a plurality of active elements for sensing at least one parameter of the electromagnetic radiation as it is actually received at the electronic device, wherein the active elements of said plurality of active elements are controllable to implement a plurality of confi...