ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,557, issued on May 26, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Bluetooth-based time synchronization method, control device, and storage medium" was invented by Sulin Yang (Dongguan, China) and Xiaofeng Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A time synchronization method includes obtaining a first BLUETOOTH packet from a master device, where the first BLUETOOTH packet carries first time stamp information, and the first time stamp information indicates a sending moment t1 that is of the first BLUETOOTH packet and that is determined based on a clock of the master device; and correcting a local tim...