ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,429, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Communication control method, wireless terminal, base station, and RIS device" was invented by Masato Fujishiro (Yokohama, Japan), Hiromichi Yoshikawa (Yokohama, Japan), Chiharu Yamazaki (Tokyo) and Nobuki Hiramatsu (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication control method used in a mobile communication system including a gNB and a UE performing wireless communication with the gNB, the communication control method including: establishing, by an RIS-UE, a wireless connection with the gNB, the RIS-UE controlling an RIS device that changes a propag...