ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,414, issued on May 13, was assigned to Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Scalable common view time transfer and related apparatuses and methods" was invented by George Zampetti (Livermore, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Common view time transfer and related apparatuses and methods are disclosed. An apparatus includes a receiver oscillator to provide a local clock signal and one or more processors. The one or more processors are to perform, at least partially based on the local clock signal, event time tagging pre-processing at least partially responsive to satellite signals received from one or more satellites to g...