ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,079, issued on May 27, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).
"Synthetic timestamp compensating for skew between system clock and sensor clock" was invented by Joseph Nouri (Fort Collins, Colo.) and Kaden Strand (Fort Collins, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "As sensor readings are received from a hardware sensor, each sensor reading is stored within a buffer along with a system timestamp of a system clock indicating when the sensor reading was received. Each sensor reading includes a sensor timestamp of a sensor clock indicating when the sensor reading occurred at the hardware sensor. Responsive to r...