US Patent Issued to Hong Kong Applied Science And Technology Research Institute on Oct. 7 for "Method of high precision time synchronization with a communication network grandmaster for user plane function" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,633, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Hong Kong Applied Science And Technology Research Institute Co. Ltd (Shatin, Hong Kong).

"Method of high precision time synchronization with a communication network grandmaster for user plane function" was invented by Liang Xia (Shatin, Hong Kong), Jianjun Zhang (Shatin, Hong Kong), Wei Li (Shatin, Hong Kong) and Liang Dong (Tai Po, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a method of synchronizing a TSN NW-TT module inside a UPF with a Grandmaster (GM) in a Time Domain of the communication network. The method comprises receiving one or more PTP or gPTP messages on an N3 interface of...