US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on June 17 for "Method and system for performing time-synchronization between units of a communication bus system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,360, issued on June 17, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Method and system for performing time-synchronization between units of a communication bus system" was invented by Mohamed-Saad Abdelhameed (Dachau, Germany) and Manjeet Singh Bilra (Hoerlkofen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing time-synchronization between a master clock of a master unit and a plurality of slave clocks of a corresponding plurality of slave units includes sending a forward time-synchronization message indicative of the master clock from the master unit to the plurality of slave units, in order to enable the plu...