US Patent Issued to SEIKO EPSON on June 17 for "Semiconductor IC, electronic device, and time display method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,607, issued on June 17, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Semiconductor IC, electronic device, and time display method" was invented by Hideo Sasahara (Suwa, Japan) and Eiji Kinoshita (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device equipped with a communication device which is a GPS communication module is provided with a calculator, a specifying portion, and a display controller. The calculator calculates a position by Doppler positioning. The specifying portion specifies a time zone based on the position calculated by the calculator. The display controller causes a display device to display the time ...