US Patent Issued to National Institute of Information and Communications Technology on April 29 for "Time synchronization device and network" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,390, issued on April 29, was assigned to National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (Tokyo).

"Time synchronization device and network" was invented by Yuichiro Yano (Tokyo), Tetsuya Ido (Tokyo) and Motoaki Hara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A node includes: a communication module that recovers a clock signal of another node; a high-precision clock module; a first phase/frequency comparison module; a time estimation section that estimates time information of each node; a counter value correction section that corrects a counter value; a fractional PLL; a second phase/frequency comparison module; and a divisi...