ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,207, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Synchronization device and synchronization method" was invented by Masato Kondou (Kanagawa, Japan), Takuya Okamoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Fumitaka Kondo (Kanagawa, Japan) and Michito Ishii (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a synchronization device that synchronizes time-series data between a master and a slave by wireless communication, the master including a packet transmission unit that transmits a plurality of packets at a predetermined interval, and the slave including a synchronization unit that synchronizes time-se...