ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,001, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Ufi Space Co. Ltd. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Distributed synchronization system" was invented by Chih-Chin Chang (New Taipei, Taiwan), Yu-Min Wang (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Hai-Jian Zhang (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Kai-Yu Yang (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed synchronization system including a management device and a plurality of synchronization devices is provided. The management device includes a network input interface and a network output interface, and is configured to: decode a precision time protocol packet to obtain a reference 1 pulse per second signal, a referenc...