ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,304, issued on April 14, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Beam control method and apparatus for intelligent surface device and electronic device" was invented by Kun Yang (Dongguan, China) and Dajie Jiang (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A beam control method for the intelligent surface device includes obtaining, by a network side device, first channel information of an active unit of the intelligent surface device, where the first channel information is channel information between the network side device and the active unit; obtaining second channel information of the active unit...