ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,437, issued on June 10, was assigned to Volvo Car Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Method for synchronizing a clock-free computational node in a vehicle, method for performing an action at a pre-defined time, first computational node, second computational node and computational system for a vehicle" was invented by Mats Bergstrom (Gothenburg, Sweden) and John Fredriksson (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for synchronizing a clock-free computational node in a vehicle such that the clock-free computational node is able to perform an action at a pre-defined time, including generating a mapping between at least one ...