ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,735, issued on March 18, was assigned to Continental Automotive GmbH (Hannover, Germany).
"Method for securing the time synchronization of an ethernet on-board network" was invented by Helge Zinner (Hannover, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for securing the time synchronization of an Ethernet on-board network of a motor vehicle, by: determining a delay time of a first signal on a first connecting path between a first control unit of the network and a second control unit of the network; determining a maximum speed of the first connecting path on the basis of the delay time; and determining a type of a transmission med...