ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,378, issued on June 10, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Synchronous control apparatus, synchronous imaging apparatus, synchronous control method, and storage medium" was invented by Satoru Tsuboi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A synchronous control apparatus includes an internal clock, a plurality of internal routes that are internal routes through which a synchronization packet passes as a part of a communication route and a transmission or reception time of the synchronization packet is acquired from the internal clock, and are internal routes provided in such a manner as to correspond to communication routes ...