ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,969, issued on March 18, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).
"Validation of a time synchronization" was invented by Mohamed-Saad Abdelhameed (Dachau, Germany), Manjeet Singh Bilra (Hoerlkofen, Germany), Karl Budweiser (Munich) and Wolfgang Laengst (Bergkirchen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes sending, from the master controller to the slave controller, a follow up message in response to a pull of a predefined pin, wherein the follow up message includes a global time of the master controller when the predefined pin was pulled; sending, from the slave controller to the master controller, a va...