US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on Oct. 28 for "Relative time error information distribution in precision time protocol network" (Swedish, Hungarian, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,052, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Relative time error information distribution in precision time protocol network" was invented by Gabor Kovacs (Dunakeszi, Hungary), Stefano Ruffini (Rome), Riccardo Rimarchi (Hasselby, Sweden) and Mikael Johansson (Solna, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided mechanisms for relative time error (TE) information distribution in a telecommunication network using a precision time protocol (PTP). A method is performed in a gateway device in a telecommunication network having hierarchical segments. The method comprises receiving T...