ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,239, issued on March 24, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Systems and methods using reflection-based communication elements" was invented by Qian Dai (Shenzhen, China), Ping Li (Shenzhen, China) and Yiming Wu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of a system, device and method for suspending sharing of a reflection-based communication element. In some aspects, a wireless communication method includes sending, by a first wireless communication node to a second wireless communication node, a first message to suspend sharing of a reflection-based communication element between the first wireless commun...