ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,713, issued on April 7, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Intelligent surface and spatial electromagnetic wave manipulation system" was invented by Jun Yang (Shenzhen, China), Yijian Chen (Shenzhen, China), Jianwu Dou (Shenzhen, China) and Min Fang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are an intelligent surface and a spatial electromagnetic wave manipulation system. The intelligent surface includes M types of electromagnetic units, where M is greater than or equal to 2. The M types of electromagnetic units are distinguished by at least one of the following: the geometric shape of the electromagnetic un...