ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,549, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Method and time synchronization (TS) node for enabling extended holdover time" was invented by Jun Wang (Beijing), Yao Peng (Beijing) and Guoliang Gao (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method and time synchronization node for enabling extended holdover time. The method comprises: detecting whether the TS node loses time synchronization with its master TS node or not; and transmitting a first announce message comprising a first indicator to one or more slave TS nodes in response to detecting that the TS ...