ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,303, issued on July 1.

"Accurate clock synchronization and location detection in time-sensitive wireless networks" was invented by Manas Behera (Cedar Park, Texas) and Chandra B. Prakash (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmitter at a first location transmits the message at a symbol rate of the reference clock using a first carrier, whose phase is locked to a phase of the reference clock and whose frequency is a first integer times a frequency of the reference clock. It also transmits the message at the symbol rate of the reference clock using a second carrier, whose phase is locked to the phase of the reference clock...