ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,984, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to LENOVO (BEIJING) Ltd. (Beijing).

"Overhead reduction in reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided ultra-reliable and low latency (URLLC) systems" was invented by Tingnan Bao (Beijing), Jianfeng Wang (Beijing) and Haiming Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for reducing the overhead in RIS-aided URLLC system are disclosed. A method comprises determining, by applying delay outage rate (DOR) metric, an active number of reflecting elements at an RIS between the base station and a UE in an RIS-aided URLLC system; and setting the active number of reflecting ele...