ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,444, issued on July 28, was assigned to Xidian University (Xi'an, China).

"2-bit high-power amplifying non-reciprocal reflective metasurface" was invented by Long Li (Xi'an, China), Guanxuan Li (Xi'an, China), Xin Wang (Xi'an, China), Dexiao Xia (Xi'an, China), Ruijie Li (Xi'an, China) and Haixia Liu (Xi'an, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A 2-bit high-power amplifying non-reciprocal reflective metasurface is provided. The metasurface comprises a plurality of metasurface units distributed in an array; each metasurface unit comprises a first metal layer, an intermediate layer, and a second metal layer which are sequentially stack...