ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,252, issued on May 20, was assigned to ABB SCHWEIZ AG (Baden, Switzerland).
"Time synchronization in a network" was invented by Dietmar Bruckner (Eggelsberg, Austria), Oliver Hoftberger (Eggelsberg, Austria), Jorg Zelenka (Eggelsberg, Austria) and Franz Profelt (Eggelsberg, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for time synchronization in a network comprising masters and at least one slave. The slave receives synchronization messages from the masters via the network for time synchronization of a first clock and a second clock of the slave. A first master sends a first synchronization message having a first time stamp to the s...