ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,791, issued on July 8, was assigned to SAGEMCOM ENERGY & TELECOM SAS (Bois-Colombes, France).
"Serial link clock synchronisation" was invented by Marc Jeanrot (Bois-Colombes, France) and Christophe Grincourt (Bois-Colombes, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for synchronising a clock of an electricity meter which includes a first processing unit including a first port arranged to be connected to an external apparatus, having the following steps: receiving, via the first port, a first frame containing a reference time; configuring the first port to operate in an interrupt-triggering mode; receiving, via the first port, a pu...