ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,244, issued on June 2, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Precise time management using local time base" was invented by Christopher D. Finan (Cupertino, Calif.), Alexander Ukanwa (Morgan Hill, Calif.), Charles F. Dominguez (San Carlos, Calif.), Jean-Didier Allegrucci (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jeffrey J. Irwin (Cupertino, Calif.), Kalpana Bansal (San Jose, Calif.), Michael Bekerman (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Remi Clavel (Milpitas, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for synchronizing a timebase is disclosed. A timebase management circuit includes limit circuitry, in a first clock domain, which generates,...