ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,538, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Schneider Electric USA Inc. (Boston).

"TSN operation management system with time capture location protocol" was invented by Alen Mehmedagic (Wilmington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for monitoring and verifying latency on TSN-configured networks. The disclosure describes a novel and inventive time capture location protocol that supplements existing TSN protocols. This supplemental TSN protocol details a way to capture the time at which a message arrives at various points in a TSN-configured network. The captured times all...