ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,741, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Time synchronization and conversion for safety validation in autonomous systems and applications" was invented by Mohamed Saad Abdelhameed (Dachau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, a time conversion operation may be performed based at least on updating a first local clock of a component based at least on a reference clock of a system including the component. A difference between a current time of the first local clock and a current time of a second local clock of the component may be determined. A state of at least one of the referen...