ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,031, issued on June 17, was assigned to Skyworks Solutions Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).
"Shared communication channel that interleaves 1 PPS signals and messaging" was invented by Robert P. Coulter (Manchester, N.H.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shared bus time interleaves 1 PPS signal and control and coordination information between a primary timing source and line cards that need to be synchronized using the 1 PPS signals. The shared bus utilizes 1 second frames divided into time slots. The 1 PPS signals are interleaved at predetermined locations in the frame so the delays introduced by interleaving the 1 PPS data in time can be preci...