US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on Sept. 1 for "Method for time distribution in a communication network of a vehicle, and communication network" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,290, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Method for time distribution in a communication network of a vehicle, and communication network" was invented by Manjeet Singh Bilra (Hoerlkofen, Germany) and Mohamed-Saad Abdelhameed (Dachau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for time distribution in a communication network of a vehicle. The method includes: sending, from a grandmaster to a first slave, a first time stamp taken from a grandmaster clock; generating, at the first slave, a first time tuple including the first time stamp and a second time stamp taken from a first sla...