ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,738, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to DEUTSCHE TELEKOM AG (Bonn, Germany).

"Method for initializing a self-synchronizing cnPRTC mesh" was invented by Helmut Imlau (Langwedel, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for initializing a self-synchronizing coherent network Primary Reference Time Clock (cnPRTC) mesh includes: a self-synchronizing cnPRTC mesh is initialized during a start-up period; and a Universal Time Coordinated (UTC(k)) node connected to a selected cnPRTC node of the self-synchronizing cnPRTC mesh sets the selected cnPRTC node to a UTC(k) time provided by the UTC(k) node during the start-up period when a Global...