ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,312, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).
"Method and apparatus for time synchronisation in wireless networks" was invented by Ian R. Knowles (Burnham, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless media distribution system is provided comprising an access point (6) for broadcasting media and a plurality of stations (2) for reception and playback of media. Each station is configured for receiving and decoding a timestamp in a beacon frame transmitted repeatedly from the access point. This is used to control the output signal of a station physical layer clock (12) w...