US Patent Issued to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on July 1 for "Distributed clock system for the synchronization of instrumentation" (Louisiana, Mississippi Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,794, issued on July 1, was assigned to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Arlington, Va.).

"Distributed clock system for the synchronization of instrumentation" was invented by Blake J. Landry (Saint Martinville, La.) and Charles R. Key (Diamondhead, Miss.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for a distributed clock system (DCS) device that includes receiving a GPS signal, determining that a first current time equals a predetermined start time, and generating a shifted GPS signal by applying a configurable delay to the received GPS signal, the shifted GPS signal alternating ...