Patent ID: 11881624
Assignee: NXP USA, INC.
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 9:
10. A wireless communication method comprising:
providing user equipment comprising a receive antenna;
providing a barrier configured to focus electromagnetic radiation carrying mmWave signals onto the receive antenna of the user equipment; and
receiving mmWave signals at the user equipment by using the barrier to focus electromagnetic radiation carrying the mmWave signals onto the receive antenna of the user equipment, wherein the electromagnetic radiation carrying the mmWave signals is transmitted by a base station, wherein the barrier includes an array of elements, each configured to refract the electromagnetic radiation carrying said mmWave signals by a respective angle, different from all other respective angles of the elements of the array, to collectively focus the electromagnetic radiation carrying said mmWave signals, wherein each element of the array of elements comprises a sub-array of elements, wherein each element of the sub-array of elements provides a diffraction in a single direction corresponding to the respective angle of the element of the array which contains the sub-array of elements.