ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,433, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Dynamic remote configuration of a reconfigurable intelligent surfaces component" was invented by Donna L Polehn (Mercer Island, Wash.) and Corey J Christopherson (Bainbridge Island, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for dynamic remote configuration of a reconfigurable intelligent surfaces component are provided. A controller is hosted remote to a reconfigurable intelligent surfaces network, such as within a cloud computing environment. The controller receives characteristics (e.g....