ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,025, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to MING CHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Method for bandwidth allocation" was invented by Yi-Chih Tung (New Taipei, Taiwan), Yi-Nan Lin (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Yen-Chen Chen (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for bandwidth allocation is to be implemented by a base station (BS) that communicates with a plurality of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs). The method comprising steps of: receiving a plurality of join messages respectively from a plurality of user equipments (UEs) via the RISs, the join messages being transmitted simultaneously by the...