ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,083, issued on April 15, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Time synchronization device for providing timing information acquired from network time sources to endpoint devices" was invented by Bradley K. Goodman (Nashua, N.H.) and Christian Lita (Dripping Springs, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises a processing device configured to establish a first connection to a specified network time source via a network-connected device, and to acquire first timing information from the specified network time source via the network-connected device, the first timing information comprising a current time...