ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,901, issued on April 7, was assigned to THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY (Princeton, N.J.).

"Reconfigurable intelligent surface realized with integrated chip tiling" was invented by Suresh Venkatesh (Princeton, N.J.), Xuyang Lu (Princeton, N.J.), Hooman Saeidi (Princeton, N.J.) and Kaushik Sengupta (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an electromagnetic-circuit co-design approach for massively reconfigurable, multifunctional, and high-speed programmable metasurfaces with integrated chip tiling. The ability to manipulate the incident electromagnetic fields in a dynamically programmable manner and at high sp...