ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,453, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to CHAOS INDUSTRIES INC. (Hermosa Beach, Calif.).

"Time synchronization in sensor array systems" was invented by Harry Bourne Marr Jr. (Manhattan Beach, Calif.), Daniel Thompson (Hermosa Beach, Calif.) and Ryan Retting (Torrance, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are described herein for time synchronization of a distributed sensor array system ("distributed system"). The distributed system includes multiple sensor nodes which are time synchronized using status information of a sensor node (e.g., timestamp of an occurrence of an event such as receipt of a request for local ...