ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,355, issued on March 18, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Mobile time-sync distribution" was invented by Malcolm Muir Smith (Richardson, Texas) and Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This technology allows time synchronization in wireless networks with mobile stations. A wireless network controller transmits instructions to access points ("APs") within the wireless network to monitor transmissions for time synchronization. One or more second APs observe fine time measurement ("FTM") exchanges between a first AP and a mobile station. A particular second AP determines whether to perf...