ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,667, issued on July 15, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc..

"Time synchronization distribution in a network" was invented by Malcolm Muir Smith (Richardson, Texas), Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.) and Sanjay Katabathuni (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Time synchronization distribution in a network may be provided. Time synchronization may be performed by an Access Point (AP) with a plurality of client devices. Next, based on information received from performing the time synchronization with the plurality of client devices, it may be determined that a first client device of the plurality of client devices is a repres...