ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,938, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"End-to-end latency measurement" was invented by Weihua Qiao (Herndon, Va.), SungDuck Chun (Fairfax, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Taehun Kim (Fairfax, Va.), Kyungmin Park (Vienna, Va.), Peyman Talebi Fard (Vienna, Va.) and Hua Zhou (Vienna, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "End-to-end latency measurements for synchronization are described. A first wireless device may determine an uplink latency associated with sending communications to a second wireless device. The first wireless device may determine a downlink latency associated wit...