ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,003, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Contention-free RIS handover via barring" was invented by Hung Dinh Ly (San Diego), Yu Zhang (San Diego), Saeid Sahraei (San Diego) and Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, and system for barring at least one UE from communicating with one or more RISs is disclosed. A base station may determine to bar at least one UE from communicating with one or more RISs of a plurality of RISs. The base station may transmit, to the at least one UE, a barring indication for the one or more RISs. The barring indication may identify ...