US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on July 14 for "3D printed reflecting surface for millimeter-wave coverage expansion" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,287, issued on July 14, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"3D printed reflecting surface for millimeter-wave coverage expansion" was invented by Xinyu Zhang (San Diego), Kun Qian (San Diego), Tse Nga Ng (San Diego) and Lulu Yao (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, there is provided an apparatus for reflecting at least one millimeter wave beam, the apparatus includes a metasurface configured with a plurality of metal-backed dielectric cuboids, wherein each of the metal-backed dielectric cuboids includes a dielectric material having a first surface of the dielectric...