ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,351, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Hughes Network Systems LLC (Germantown, Md.).

"Communication systems and methods for synchronizing clock timing and frequency" was invented by Nimesh Ambeskar (Germantown, Md.), Jack Lundstedt (Monrovia, Md.), Yogesh Sethi (Boyds, Md.), Patrick O'Neil (Germantown, Md.) and Tyler Horwat (Germantown, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Communication systems and methods are disclosed herein. In an embodiment, a communication system includes a grandmaster clock and a modem unit. The grandmaster clock is configured to output a primary clock reference based on a received signal. The modem unit is config...