ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,461, issued on April 22, was assigned to Geotab Inc. (Oakville, Canada).

"Systems, devices, and methods for synchronizing data from asynchronous sources" was invented by William John Ballantyne (Aurora, Canada), Javed Siddique (York, Canada) and Willem Petersen (Elmira, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A synchronized data set is generated from multiple asynchronous data sets. An interpolated data set is generated for each asynchronous data set, at a higher data rate than recorded data rates for the asynchronous data sets. The interpolated data for each data set is then sampled at a lower data rate which is common to all the inter...