ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,604, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Feitian Technologies Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for synchronizing time by parsing satellite navigation data" was invented by Zhou Lu (Beijing) and Huazhang Yu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application presents a method and an apparatus for synchronizing time by parsing satellite navigation data. A service application obtains current time of a system and caches it as a first time variable, receives and parses the satellite navigation data to obtain all character strings, obtains a character string as a current character string to be processed, determines a type...