ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,582, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Relay device, control method for relay device, and program" was invented by Riku Omiya (Musashino, Japan), Kahoko Takahashi (Musashino, Japan), Tomoaki Ogawa (Musashino, Japan) and Yasushi Takatori (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A relay device has the following configuration for quickly and easily acquiring highly accurate terminal position information and controlling the reconfigurable intelligent surface. The reconfigurable intelligent surface dynamically changes the reflection direction of the radio wave. The image sensor captures a use range of a termi...