ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,953, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Sun Patent Trust (New York).

"Device to device synchronization source selection" was invented by Sujuan Feng (Frankfurt, Germany), Lilei Wang (Beijing), Hidetoshi Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Prateek Basu Mallick (Hessen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to selection of synchronization source among various synchronization sources which include sources determining the synchronization signal from the network such as base stations (network nodes) or user equipments which receive the synchronization signal possibly over other hops from the base station, and which...