ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,619, issued on June 30, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Clock error prediction method and apparatus" was invented by Yang Xiao (Shanghai), Guosheng Huang (Shanghai), Yongfeng Guo (Shanghai), Guanzhong Tan (Shenzhen, China) and Yongxiang Liu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clock error prediction method includes: obtaining historical satellite clock error data of a preset time period which includes broadcast ephemeris clock error data and precise ephemeris clock error data; obtaining corrected precise ephemeris clock error data based on the broadcast ephemeris clock error data; obtaining a s...