ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,325, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Synchronizing systems on a chip using time synchronization messages" was invented by Samuel Ahn (Marina Del Rey, Calif.) and Dmitry Ryuma (Sherman Oaks, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic eyewear device includes first and second systems on a chip (SoCs) having independent time bases and an inter-SoC interface that connects the first and second SoCs. The operations of the first and second SoCs are synchronized by aligning the time bases for the SoCs using a modified PTP technique. The technique includes the second SoC receiving a time synchron...