ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,660, issued on July 7, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"User equipment density-based codebook adjustment for reconfigurable intelligent surface-assisted communications" was invented by Yavuz Yapici (Florham Park, N.J.) and Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices that support user equipment (UE) density-based codebook adjustment for reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted communications are described. A network entity may configure RIS codebooks based on dynamically changing UE densities, such that codebooks may be tailored for geographical regions with higher UE d...