ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,726, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).
"Technique for performing time synchronization" was invented by Ahmet Burak Ozyurt (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Yekta Turk (Ankara, Turkey) and Athanasios Stavridis (Malmo, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for performing time synchronization between a master device and a slave device is disclosed. A method implementation of the technique is performed by the master device and comprises transmitting, using optical wireless signals, a timestamp representative of a clock time of the master device to the slave device, wherein the ti...