US Patent Issued to ZTE on Feb. 10 for "Surface element segmentation and node grouping for intelligent reflecting devices" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,223, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Surface element segmentation and node grouping for intelligent reflecting devices" was invented by Mengnan Jian (Shenzhen, China), Yajun Zhao (Shenzhen, China), Yijian Chen (Shenzhen, China) and Ruiqi Liu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document generally relates to wireless communication systems that involve one or more intelligent reflecting devices. A plurality of second nodes that communicate with a first node may be grouped into node groups based on one or more communication parameters between the plurality of second nodes and an intellige...