ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,834, issued on June 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Universal serial bus time synchronization" was invented by John H Kelm (Belmont, Calif.), Alexei E Kosut (Campbell, Calif.) and Yi Chun Chen (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes components, a distributed timebase circuit, an interface and a Time Synchronization Circuit (TSC). The timebase circuit is configured to provide local timebases in physical proximity to the components, and synchronize the local timebases to a global timebase so as to provide a consistent time measurement. The interface is configured to be coupled to one ...