ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,349, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Devices and methods for handling precise timing protocol frames" was invented by Hubertus Munz (Aachen, Germany), Kun Wang (Solna, Sweden), Stefano Ruffini (Rome), Zhenhua Zou (Solna, Sweden), John Walter Diachina (Garner, N.C.), Torsten Dudda (Wassenberg, Germany) and Paul Schliwa-Bertling (Ljungsbro, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a transmitting device, in a 3GPP wireless communication 5 system (100), for handling generalized Precise Timing Protocol (gPTP) signaling, from a Time Sensitive Network (TSN) is provided...