ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,684, issued on March 4, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Network synchronization method, apparatus, device, and system, and readable storage medium" was invented by Yuanlong Jiang (Shenzhen, China), Fanshun Meng (Wuhan, China), Jingfei Lyu (Wuhan, China) and Jingfeng Chen (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: a first network device obtains a synchronization mode indication and synchronization information, where the synchronization mode indication indicates a target network device to perform synchronization based on the synchronization information. The first network device ...