ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,122, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Circuitry and method for quantization error correction for time synchronization" was invented by Ming So (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Jian Liu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating an electronic device is disclosed. The method includes generating an initial time value, generating an initial time stamp based on the initial time value, and transmitting the initial time stamp. The initial time stamp has a number of bits. For a set period of time, the time stamp is updated and the updated time stamp is transmitted from the e...