ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,550, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to HYUNDAI AUTOEVER CORP. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for synchronizing time in multiple time domains, and apparatus implementing the same method" was invented by Sung Jin Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Doo Hyun Moon (Seoul, South Korea), Sun Yul Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Ye Ji Park (Seoul, South Korea) and Seung Ho Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A slave node calculates and stores a propagation delay generated when exchanging a message with a master node. The master node transmits a reference time indicated by a hardware clock of the master node, and the slave node synchroniz...