ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,029, issued on April 22, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Synchronization method, apparatus, and device, and storage medium" was invented by Boling Fan (Dongguan, China), Xingjian Shi (Beijing), Wei Wu (Wuhan, China) and Xiaoyi Zeng (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A synchronization method includes obtaining a first timestamp difference of a packet on a target link. The first timestamp difference is a difference between a sending timestamp and a receiving timestamp of the packet at a first moment. The synchronization method further includes performing packet selection based on the first tim...