US Patent Issued to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE on Feb. 25 for "Synchronization method and information apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,238,662, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Synchronization method and information apparatus" was invented by Shigeru Teruhi (Musashino, Japan), Kento Yoshizawa (Musashino, Japan) and Kazunori Akabane (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A synchronization method includes: a first step of transmitting a query command a plurality of times to a communication device configured to perform time synchronization with a base station device connected to a mobile communication network, the query command requesting time information expressed in a first unit, the first unit being lower in acc...