US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms on Aug. 26 for "Network clock synchronization with quantum systems in an entangled state" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,492, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Meta Platforms Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Network clock synchronization with quantum systems in an entangled state" was invented by Ahmad Byagowi (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Hans-Juergen Schmidtke (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clock synchronization method is disclosed. The method comprises receiving master timing synchronization data from a master clock device, wherein the master timing synchronization data is based at least in part on quantum data obtained from a first quantum device of the master clock device. The method comprises determining local timing synchronizati...