ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,993, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Time synchronization in wireless networks" was invented by Nobuaki Tsunashima (Toyonaka, Japan), Shuji Kumise (Fuchu, Japan), James Wihardja (Tustin, Calif.) and Victor Zhodzishsky (Potomac, Md.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations disclosed describe numerous techniques and systems facilitating synchronous actions in wireless networks that have a central device (CD) and multiple peripheral devices (PDs) communicating wirelessly with the CD. The CD communicates one or more messages to the PDs and various PDs determine, using communicat...