US Patent Issued to AMAZON TECHNOLGIES on March 18 for "System to determine pulse per second timing" (Texas, Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,350, issued on March 18, was assigned to AMAZON TECHNOLGIES INC. (Seattle).

"System to determine pulse per second timing" was invented by Arunabha Ghosh (Bellevue, Wash.), Vikram Chandrasekhar (San Jose, Calif.) and Tanim Mohammed Abu Taher (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Satellites communicate with user terminals (UTs) based on accurate timing. A UT clock provides a pulse per second (PPS) signal to coordinate operation of the UT, such as transmitting data on an uplink at specified times. The clock may be disciplined by an external source that provides accurate and precise true time, such as a global navigation sat...