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

Claim 0:
1. A wireless communication system comprising:
user equipment comprising a receive antenna for receiving mmWave signals from a base station transmitter; and
a barrier comprising an array of elements configured to focus electromagnetic radiation carrying said mmWave signals onto the receive antenna of the user equipment, wherein each element is 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.